David joined the Political Science and International Relations program in the School of Social Sciences at UWA in 2014 as Assistant Professor, Foreign Policy and International Relations. David has a PhD in International Relations from Murdoch University, Perth, and from 2010-13 was a Lecturer in International Relations in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. In early 2013 David was a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Peace and Security Studies at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.