The United Nations Development Programme welcomed Samuel Gbaydee Doe to South Sudan as the agency’s new Resident Representative. The conflict, peace, and development professional has wide ranging international policy advisory and country office management experience.
Doe, a native of Liberia, is a 1998 graduate of Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding and has returned several times to teach at the Summer Peacebuilding Institute. He also holds a PhD in social and international affairs from the University of Bradford.
Read more about Samuel Gbaydee Doe at EMU’s Peacebuilder website.
“Our partnership [with UNDP] has grown from strength to strength over the years and we look forward to furthering this good relationship we have cultivated with you on board,” said Minister Wani during the presentation of credentials at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“As you all know the UNDP has been with the people of South Sudan since before independence. We are determined to remain your trusted partner as we strive towards building this young state and ensuring sustainable development for all people here in this beautiful country,” said Mr. Doe to press gathered at the event.
Doe joins the South Sudan country office after serving as Resident Representative in Sierra Leone. In addition to leading the Sierra Leone office, he also served as Senior Policy Advisor and Team Leader, on Fragility, Recovery and Resilience for the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support and Team Leader in the Policy and Planning Division, both of UNDP in New York.
Doe began his career with UNDP as Senior Conflict Prevention and Civil Society Development Expert with the Pacific Regional Center in Fiji. In 2007, he was named Development and Reconciliation Advisor for the UN in Sri Lanka where he worked to resolve the conflict in Sri Lanka between Tamil and Sinhalese communities and later joined the Secretary General’s Advisory Panel on Sri Lanka as Senior Political Officer in New York.
Before joining the UN system, Doe served as founding executive director of the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding the largest peacebuilding civil society network in Africa—and became one of the pioneers for civil society conflict early warning work in Africa.
Congrats to Dr. samuel Doe. I came to CJP in 99. And had him and Dr. Barry as professors for Identity and Conflict class.
I followed their work when they established the WANEP program.
He makes CJP program more inspiring and grounded in Africa context.
Congrats my dear friend Dr. Sam
Congratulations my brother Samuel.