Francis Deng

Francis Deng is a Director of the UN Vision Project on Global Public Policy Networks and Senior Fellow for Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution. Dr Deng has served as the Sudan's ambassador to Canada, the Scandanavian countries, and the United States and, from 1976 to 1980, was Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of the Sudan. In 1992, Dr Deng was appointed as Special Representative on internally displaced persons worldwide by UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali. He is a...See more

Francis Deng is a Director of the UN Vision Project on Global Public Policy Networks and Senior Fellow for Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution. Dr Deng has served as the Sudan's ambassador to Canada, the Scandanavian countries, and the United States and, from 1976 to 1980, was Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of the Sudan. In 1992, Dr Deng was appointed as Special Representative on internally displaced persons worldwide by UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali. He is a former Guest Scholar and Senior Research Associate of the Woodrow Wilson Center, a former Distinguished Fellow of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and a former Jennings Randolph Distinguished Fellow at the US Institute of Peace. . See less