Steven Lawry is Global Practice Leader for Land Tenure and Property Rights at DAI. Dr. Lawry founded the program on tenure and natural resources management at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Land Tenure Center and he led the Ford Foundation’s land policy and land reform initiatives in South Africa. He has lived and worked overseas for 16 years on long- and short-term assignments in Africa and Asia. Most recently, he led the USAID-funded Sudan Property Rights Program, based in Juba, South Sudan.