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He was at the Woodrow Wilson International Center first as a guest scholar and then as a senior research associate, after which he joined the [[Brookings Institution]] as a senior fellow, where he founded and directed the Africa Project for 12 years. He was then appointed distinguished professor at the Graduate Center of the [[City University of New York]] before joining Johns Hopkins University.
[[File:Representatives of UN Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide - With Former Special Adviser Dr. Francis Deng at Right - Jakarta - Indonesia.jpg|thumb|Representatives of UN Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide with Former Special Adviser Dr. Francis Deng, 2011]]
Among his numerous awards in his country and abroad, Dr. Deng is co-recipient with Roberta Cohen of the 2005 [[University of Louisville]] [[Grawemeyer Award]] for “Ideas"Ideas Improving World Order”Order" <ref name=grawemeyer.org>{{cite web|title=2005- Francis Deng and Roberta Cohen|url=http://grawemeyer.org/worldorder/previous-winners/2005-francis-deng-and-roberta-cohen.html}}</ref> and the 2007 Merage Foundation American Dream Leadership Award. In 2000, Dr. Deng also received the Rome Prize for Peace and Humanitarian Action.
 
In 2011, he served as the South Sudan's first ambassador to the [[United Nations]].<ref>http://www.iol.co.za/news/africa/south-sudan-names-un-ambassador-1.1374187#.UEOmo5aiE1A</ref>