Francis Deng
Francis Deng | |
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Deng in 2011 | |
| Born | 1938 (age 86–87) Abyei, Kurdofan, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan |
| Occupation | Writer, diplomat, scholar |
| Language | English Arabic Dinka |
| Education | University of Khartoum (LLB, LLM) Yale University (JSD) |
| Subject | Law, conflict resolution, human rights, anthropology, history, politics, novels |
| Notable awards | 2000 Rome Prize for Peace and Humanitarian Action 2005 Grawemeyer Award 2007 Merage Foundation American Dream Leadership Award |
| Spouse | Dorothy Anne Ludwig |
| Children | 4 |
Francis Mading Deng (born 1938) is a South Sudanese politician and diplomat. He played an important role in advancing a Responsibility to Protect (R2P) when he was the UN's Special Representative on Internally Displaced Persons (1992–2004).
Educated as a lawyer, Deng was posted as Ambassador of Sudan to the United States, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden over the period 1972 to 1976. From 1976 to 1980, he was Sudan's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs. After leaving Sudan's diplomatic service, he held several academic positions before becoming the United Nations' first Special Representative on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons in 1992.
He was newly independent South Sudan's first ambassador to the United Nations from 2012 to July 2016