Programs Manager

Mr. Ruot George, a former refugee and Internally Displaced Person (IDP), is a seasoned freelance journalist, human rights activist, and entrepreneur with over a decade of experience in broadcasting and translation. He authored the first online collection of South Sudanese folktales. Currently the interim Secretary-General of the South Sudan Young Peace Builders’ Forum and a…

Executive Board Member

John Youhanes Magok, South Sudanese young leader, working for the African Union Commission (AUC) as Mining Policy Officer under AU Youth Volunteer Program at the Department of Trade and Industry. Youhanes is a YALI Regional Leadership Center of East Africa, alumni of cohort 38 of Business and Entrepreneurship Track. He is a holder of Bachelor…

Country Director, South Sudan

Michael Thak Nguany Jal: – is a Bachelor Degree holder of Information Communication Technology (ICT) with good knowledge of financial transactions. A member of Intra-transport Company for clearance and forwarding Agency (ITC).he is currently working with ACTED, South Sudan an International Organization, inspired to Empowered Youth through Entrepreneurship, Education, and Innovation he is a very…

NYDA Youth Researcher, Egypt

Basma Kamel – is alumni of the African Presidential Leadership Program (APLP) of Egypt National Training Academy. She was a participant in the first Cairo National Conference for South Sudan’s Youth under the theme “Together for Present and Future South Sudan”.  She studied three tracks of leadership in national security strategies, crisis management and negotiations…

NYDA Youth Researcher, Sudan

Abdoalnaser Ibrahim is a skilled multipotentialite, research-oriented emerging professional and a lifelong volunteer from the ashes of Darfur war and IDP conditions – he is Sudapet Co. Ltd YPP fellow who has demonstrated responsible leadership qualities throughout his participation and presence – including representing Sudan in Post-Tana Regional Youth Consultation. Furthermore, Abdoalnaser worked with many…

NYDA Youth Researcher, Sudan

Logman Osman is active Sudanese youth in the fields of peace-building, conflicts prevention and management, mediation and interventions, building communities after Conflicts, counter-terrorism and violence extremism, and youth engagement and empowerment. Logman is a facilitator of the Youth Engagement and Empowerment program in the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism in New York. He is also…

NYDA Youth Researcher, South Sudan

Pam Bayoch Gatluak – is a Public Health Officer, a graduate of Kea-Med Medical College in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He worked as Executive Officer of Dit-Ni-Tek Organization (DNT) which focuses more on wash, peacebuilding, and vulnerable empowerment especially orphans and widows. He also worked as head of community health worker in MSF-Holland to advocate for…