David Malone, Senior Programme Officer for Vector Control at the BMGF, is an entomologist, with research experience in the area of insecticide resistance and vector biology. Before joining BMGF, David held a role as Senior Business Development Manager for Sumitomo Chemical and prior to this was Technical Manager at the Innovative Vector Control Consortium (IVCC) in Liverpool. Previously he worked as a civilian medical entomologist for the British Military, at the Cayman Islands Mosquito Research and Control Unit and as Director of Research and Technical Services for the Florida based company Adapco.