Deng Majok Chol Jok
Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) in Geography and the Environment
Supervisors: Prof. Jim Hall and Dr Kevin Wheeler
Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) in Geography and the Environment
Supervisors: Prof. Jim Hall and Dr Kevin Wheeler
Human exposure and adaptation to flood risk in the Sudd
Academic Profile
Deng Majok Chol earned a B.S. in political science and Economics from Arizona State, two-year MBA from George Washington University, and two-year MPA from Harvard University.
Previously, Deng was a visiting fellow at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR); a consultant for both the World Bank, and International Finance Corporation (IFC) on areas of geopolitics of energy, and environmental risks; and a project assistant at the Center for Global Change Science (CGCS) at MIT.
He is currently a DPhil Candidate at the Oxford, pursuing research on the socio-hydrology of the Sudd wetland (South Sudan's lungs).
Deng's two papers are currently under review:
- Geospatial analysis of population exposure to flooding in the Sudd region, South Sudan, is under review at the: Journal of Flood Risk Management - Wiley Online Library
- Dynamics of human adaptation to flood risk in the Sudd wetlands, South Sudan, is under review at the: Regional Environmental Change
Deng’s Oxford affiliations include Linacre College, OPSIS, and ECI.
