Ambassador Nureldin M. H. Satti is a seasoned diplomat and a retired UN senior official from Sudan. He served as the Principal Deputy SRSG at the United Nations political and peacekeeping missions to Burundi, UNOB and then ONUB, from 2002 to 2006 (Acting SRSG from April to December 2006).

 

He also served as ambassador of Sudan to France, Portugal, Switzerland and the Vatican as well as Permanent Delegate to UNESCO (1992-1996); and as Minister Plenipotentiary in the embassies of Sudan to Belgium and Chad (Was Sudan Chargé to Chad in 1989).

 

Ambassador Satti served as ambassador of Sudan to the United States (July 2020 – January 2022). He was forced to resign following the October 2021 military coup in Sudan and has since been involved in the civic movement to restore peace and civil democratic rule in Sudan.

 

He has a longstanding experience in mediation, conflict resolution, peacekeeping, peacebuilding and culture of peace through his work on a number of conflict situations in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, including Burundi, Chad, the DRC, Libya, Iraq, Rwanda, the Philippines (Mindanao), Somalia, South Sudan, and his own country, Sudan, as well as the broader Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes Regions where he represented UNESCO on culture of peace programs and where he worked on mediation and conflict resolution issues, particularly in support of the AU and IGAD.

 

Ambassador Satti is a Global Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Center of Washington DC, where he was a Senior Fellow and Distinguished African Scholar (2008-2009) and is also co-chair of the Sudans Working Group at the Center. He also served as Special Advisor with the Humanitarian Dialogue Centre (HD) of Geneva on Sudan issues with particular focus of the National Dialogue in Sudan and humanitarian dialogue in Darfur and with the SPLM-North. He also worked as Senior Regional Advisor to the Crisis Management Initiative (CMI) of Helsinki, working on issues of Iraq, the Red-Sea-Horn of Africa and the Lake Chad Basin and providing support to the AU and IGAD on mediation issues.

 

Ambassador Satti served as member of the High Council for Peace in the Sudan in 2020.

 

Ambassador Satti was awarded the National Order of the Légion d’Honneur by the French Republic and the Medal of Saint Gregory by the Vatican.

 

He authored several articles on issues of Sudan identity, as well as social and political issues related to Sudan and Africa in general. He authored books in Arabic language on the failures of the Sudanese elite, on his experience in conflict resolution and peacekeeping as well as on the role of youth in social change in Sudan. The first parts of his memoirs in Arabic and French have been published in 2019 and 2022, the English version is to be published soon. He authored two books on the 2018 revolution and the unfinished democratic transition in Sudan.

 

Ambassador Satti graduated from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Khartoum in 1969 and holds a Master’s degree from the university of Lyon and a Doctorate in Literature from the University of Paris-Sorbonne in 1974.

 

He is fluent in Arabic, English and French