Dr. Wolf has over 35 years of research and work experience in East Africa, beginning with three years as a US Peace Corps Volunteer secondary school teacher in Kenya. He subsequently worked as a trainer for the Danish Volunteer Service in Tanzania, following which he obtained an M.A. in African Studies at Ohio University, and a doctorate in Comparative Politics, which he completed at the University of Sussex (UK). His dissertation, based on three years of field research, examined political leadership at the Kenya Coast. Dr. Wolf subsequently served as a Lecturer in the Dept. of Government at the University of Nairobi and as an Advisor in the Democracy/Governance Office at USAID-Kenya. Since 2002 he has been a self-employed Research Consultant who has been working closely with MAST research limited. In 2004, after working on Kenya’s first Afro barometer survey, he began consulting for The Steadman Group, for whom (and subsequently for Synovate and Ipsos before leaving in April 2019). He has participated as Lead or Co-Consultant in various research and consultancy projects, including those for Transparency International-Kenya, The Ford Foundation, The Westminster Foundation for Democracy, DANIDA, USAID, UNDP, Nation Media Group and the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs (in Kenya and Uganda). He was in charge of national omnibus surveys at Ipsos, which includes questionnaire design, data analysis, and public presentations, as well as capacity-building training of media practitioner.