Marc Herold is a professor of economic development at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, N.H., where he has taught since 1975. He holds a Master's degree in international business and finance and a PhD in Economics from the University of California in Berkeley, as well as an engineering degree in electronics from the Swiss Federal Polytechnic University. He has focused his writings upon social and economic changes in the Second and Third Worlds. He created the web-based Afghan Victim Memorial Project which reports on civilian victims of US/NATO actions in Afghanistan. His book on the Afghan conflict was published in Madrid in October 2007 as Afganistan Como un Espacio Vacio. El Perfecto Estado Colonial del Siglo XXI