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Nonresident Senior Fellow

Francis M. Deng

Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy

An expert on conflict management and U.S.-Africa relations, Francis Deng also directs the Center for Displacement Studies at John Hopkins’s School of Advanced International Studies.  Deng is a former representative of the U.N. Security-General on internally displaced persons. 



Expertise

Africa; conflict management and resolution; human rights; internal displacement; regional conflicts; Sudan; U.S.-Africa relations

  • Language Fluency:
  • Arabic

Background

Current Positions
Research Professor at the Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies and Director of the SAIS Center for Displacement Studies

Past Positions
Former Representative of the U.N. Secretary-General on Internally Displaced Persons (1994-2004); Distinguished Professor and Senior Fellow at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Affairs Graduate Center, City University of New York; Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of the Sudan (1976-1980); Sudanese Ambassador to the United States, to Scandinavia, and to Canada; Human Rights Officer, Division of Human Rights, U.N. Secretariat (1967-71); Guest Scholar and Senior Research Associate, Woodrow Wilson Center; Distinguished Fellow, Rockefeller Brothers Fund; Jennings Randolph Distinguished Fellow, U.S. Institute of Peace

Education

J.S.D. (1968), LL.M. (1965) Yale Law School; LL.B., Khartoum University, 1962

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