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Mauro De Lorenzo is a resident fellow in foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. He studied social anthropology as a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, focusing on the Banyamulenge of eastern Congo. Previously, he studied linguistics and cognitive science at the University of Delaware. From 1998 to 2000 he worked at the Makerere Institute of Social Research with Dr. Barbara Harrell-Bond on an EU-funded research program about refugee rights in East Africa, and in 2001-2002 he contributed to the work of AMERA-UK in Egypt. He was associate producer and director of research for the BBC/ARTE documentary The Price of Aid about the ambiguities of food aid in Zambia in 2002.