Dr Majak D’ Agoôt was appointed Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the African Leadership Centre in 2019. He is a leading practitioner on the Centre's Practice of Leadership programme.

He is the former Deputy Chief of the Sudanese Intelligence and South Sudan’s Defence Minister and has formerly held the role of Senior analyst at the Changing Horizon Institute for Strategic Policy Analysis (CHI-SPA).

He has published articles in peer review journals and think pieces in media outlets in Africa, the Middle East and the West, covering various policy spheres.

Majak holds an MSc in Quantitative Finance and a PhD in Financial Economics from SOAS, University of London. He also holds an MSc in Security Sector Management from Cranfield University and an MA in War Studies from King’s.