David Dole is the Deputy Country Director at ADB's Resident Mission in Afghanistan. Until January 2019 he was on secondment to ADB Institute as a senior economist with the Capacity Building and Training Department. He was previously country director at the Asian Development Bank’s Resident Mission in Armenia (2011–2015), principal evaluation specialist in the Independent Evaluation Department (2009–2011), head of the Economics Unit at the People’s Republic of China Resident Mission (2006–2009), and senior economist in the Economics Research Department (2001–2006). He has a PhD in economics and an MA in statistics from the University of California, Berkeley.