Francis M. Deng

Francis M. Deng Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, Brookings Institution.

"Expertise: Africa, conflict management and resolution, human rights, internal displacement, regional conflicts, Sudan, U.S.-Africa relations

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

"Current Position(s): Research Professor at the Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies and Director of the SAIS Center for Displacement Studies

"Previous Position(s): 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."


 * Board of Governors, Centre for Conflict Resolution
 * Advisory Council, Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict
 * Advisory Council, Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative
 * Former Director, Sudan-American Foundation for Education
 * Winner of the 2005 Grawemeyer Award
 * International Advisory Council, Institute of Security Studies