IPED Lecture : The Crisis in Eastern DRC and its Reverberations Across the Great Lakes Region and Africa

Join us for an IPED lecture with Denis Owiny, a global politics and security professional with a diverse background, focusing on U.S.-Africa relations, democracy, governance, political violence, Islamist extremism, conflict prevention, and peacebuilding. His professional journey includes roles in teaching, government, and think tanks. He served at St Joseph’s College Layibi as an English language teacher, at the Parliament of Uganda as an assistant editor of Hansard, and at the Center for Strategic and International Studies Africa Program as a research intern. He currently serves as director of external relations and stakeholder outreach at the Uganda National Academy of Sciences.

Owiny holds an M.S. in foreign service from Georgetown University, a postgraduate diploma in public administration and management from Uganda Management Institute, and a B.A. in education from Gulu University. He is passionate about climate change advocacy, evidenced by his attendance at COP28 in Dubai, where he focused on climate finance for adaptation in sub-Saharan Africa. His research spans great power competition, violent extremism, democratic governance, and the U.S. extra-regional hegemony.