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'''Francis Mading Deng''' is a politician and diplomat from [[South Sudan]] who served as the newly independent country's first ambassador to the [[United Nations]] from 2012 to July 2016.<ref name="auto">
==Life and career==
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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 Improving World 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|access-date=8 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150610210414/http://grawemeyer.org/worldorder/previous-winners/2005-francis-deng-and-roberta-cohen.html|archive-date=10 June 2015|url-status=dead}}</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
He has authored and edited 40 books in the fields of law, conflict resolution, internal displacement, human rights, anthropology, folklore, history and politics and has also written two novels on the theme of the crisis of national identity in the Sudan. He was born in 1938 and in 1972 married Dorothy Anne Ludwig, with whom he has four sons, Donald, Daniel, David and Dennis.
== Selected publications ==
▲[[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]]
* Bound by Conflict: Dilemmas of the Two Sudans (International Humanitarian Affairs. with Kevin M. Cahill M.D. (FUP)) (1 March 2016)
* Identity, Diversity, and Constitutionalism in AfricaNov (1, 2008)
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== External links ==
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*[http://www.unelections.org/files/IGP_BiographyofFrancisDeng_30May07.pdf The Biography of Francis Deng], [[UN]].
*[https://www.un.org/en/preventgenocide/adviser/advisers.shtml Profile] — [[United Nations]] Office of the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide
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