Mansour Khalid
Sudanese politician
Mansour Khalid (Arabic: منصور خالد; 17 January 1931 – 22 April 2020) was a Sudanese lawyer, diplomat, and scholar, who published several books. He served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sudan from 1971 to 1975 and briefly in 1977. He also served as first vice chairman of the World Commission on Environment and Development, also known as the Brundtland Commission, after the Chair of the commission, who was Gro Harlem Brundtland (former Prime Minister of Norway). He played an important role in negotiating the peace accord known as the Addis Ababa Agreement which ended the First Sudanese Civil War in 1972.
Education
Mansour Khaled studied at the University of Khartoum and the University of Pennsylvania. He also studied in Algiers and Paris.
Career
Mansour Khaled held many positions of public service. He worked in the United Nations Secretariat from 1961 to 1962; for the UN Technical Assistance program in Algiers (1963–64); and for UNESCO in Paris (1965–69). In Sudan, he served as Minister of Youth and Sports (1969–70), then at the United Nations representing Sudan, and then as Sudanese Foreign Minister (1971–75). Her served as Minister of Education from 1975 to 1976.
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