Francis Deng | |
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Born | 1938 (age 85–86) 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 who served as the newly independent country's first ambassador to the United Nations from 2012 to July 2016.[1]