Khalif Abdirahman is a Senior Field Researcher on the LSE Conflict Research Programme, Somalia. He has been a community worker with the Somali community in the UK, and has conducted research across the Somali regions in the Horn of Africa for Tufts University, Transparency International, the Overseas Development Institute, the International Crisis Group, and with the Rift Valley Institute on livelihoods, taxation and maritime trade with Yemen.