Ladd Serwat is ACLED’s Africa Regional Expert, where he coordinates conflict analysis and helps oversee regional data coverage and partnerships. His research focuses on political violence, land disputes and development policy, with particular experience in Africa’s Great Lakes region. He earned a PhD in International Development from the University of Sussex, where his dissertation examined gender and land reform in Burundi, and an MSc in African Development from the London School of Economics. For LAND-at-scale he studied how institutions resolve land disputes across seven countries.