Is an adjunct distinguished professor at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies, National Defense University in Washington. His areas of expertise include Development – Security – Governance Nexus, Public Policy Design, Implementation and Evaluation, National Security Strategy Development and Implementation in Africa, Management of Security Resources in Africa, Post-Conflict Transitions, Peacebuilding and Statebuilding, Livelihoods, Vulnerability, Food Security and Humanitarian – Development Nexus. Dr. Kuol is also a Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of Abyei Action for Community Development (ACAD), a Global Fellow at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), a Fellow at the Rift Valley Institute, and an Associate Professor of Economics (on leave) at the University of Juba in South Sudan. He is a member of the United Nations Security Sector Advisory Council, a member of the African Security Sector Network and one of the founding members of South Sudan Studies Association. He also sits on the editorial board of the renowned Disasters Journal. He was the Dean of Faculty and Academic Affairs at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies. In addition, he was the faculty lead of three academic programs: National Security Strategy Development and Implementation in Africa, Managing Security Resources in Africa, and Emerging Security Sector Leaders in Africa. Prior to joining the Africa Center, Dr. Kuol served as the director of the Institute of Peace, Development and Security Studies at the University of Juba, South Sudan. He was also a member of the teaching staff of the Faculty of Economics and Rural Development at the University of Gezira in Sudan. He was a resident fellow at Harvard Kennedy School and a visiting fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at University of Sussex in the United Kingdom. He served as a Minister of Presidential Affairs for the Government of Southern Sudan and as a National Minister of Cabinet Affairs for the Republic of Sudan. He has also worked as a senior economist for the World Bank in Sudan. He was the founder of the New Sudan Center for Statistics and Evaluation that became the current South Sudan Bureau of Statistics. He has published scholarly articles in a wide array of prestigious international journals and contributed with many peer-reviewed chapters in various books and peer reviewer for more than fifteen renowned peer-reviewed journals. He is the lead author of the National Security Strategy Development in Africa: Toolkit for Drafting and Consultation published by the Africa Center for Strategic Studies. He is a co-editor of a book entitled “The Struggle for South Sudan: Challenges of Security and State Formation”, co-editor of a book entitled “Abyei: Between Two Sudans” and author of two books entitled “Confronting Civil War: Vulnerability and Resilience in South Sudan and Sudan” and “Why Does Famine Persist in Africa?”. He received his Bachelor of Science from the Faculty of Economics and Social Studies at the University of Khartoum, Sudan, master’s degree in economics and Master of Business Administration from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, and a Ph.D. from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom.