Dr David Hoile is a public affairs consultant specializing in African affairs.
He has studied Sudanese affairs for several years and has been the Director of the European-Sudanese Public Affairs Council since 1998.
He is a research professor at the University of Nyala in Darfur and is also a visiting professor at the Institute of African and Asian Studies and the Department of Political Science at the University of Khartoum in Sudan.
Dr Hoile is a member of several Sudanese and African studies associations and international affairs bodies.
He is the author of Darfur in Perspective (2005), Images of Sudan: Case Studies in Propaganda and Misrepresentation (2003) and Farce Majeure: The Clinton Administration's Sudan Policy 1993-2000 (2000) and editor of The Search for Peace in the Sudan: A Chronology of the Sudanese Peace Process 1989-2001.
He is the author or editor of a number of other publications on African affairs, including Mozambique: A Nation in Crisis (1989).