Freddie Carver is a researcher and analyst based in Addis Ababa. He has worked on South Sudan since 2003, including with Operation Lifeline Sudan between 2003 and 2005, and as DFID’s governance and conflict advisor from 2008. He is currently an independent researcher on a range of issues relating to the political economy and conflict sensitivity of aid in the Sudans and the Horn of Africa, working on RVI’s Diaspora Impacts Project and the X-Border Local Research Network project.