Sudan Before and After 2011 | Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award Lecture

Roger Winter
Deputy Secretary of State’s Special Representative on Sudan from 2001 to 2006

Roger P. Winter has worked on issues of peace, war, humanitarian assistance, civilian protection, and advocacy in Sudan - first as Executive Director of the non-profit U.S. Committee for Refugees from 1981 to 2001 and then as Assistant Administrator of USAID and as the Deputy Secretary of State’s Special Representative on Sudan from 2001 to 2006. Currently Mr. Winter advises the Government of Southern Sudan on a voluntary basis, and he was profiled in the article, “The Man for A New Sudan.”

Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth
North America Representative of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM)

Hon. Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth, Head of Mission for the Government of Southern Sudan Mission to the United States in Washington, DC and Sudan Peoples’ Liberation Movement Representative to the US, was trained and served as a soldier in the Sudan Peoples’ Liberation Army and received a B.A. in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Maryland College Park.  Hon. Gatkuoth advocates for democratic transformation in the Sudan, implementation of Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement, development for Southern Sudan, and an immediate end to the crisis in
Darfur.