Deng Dak Malual has spent the last 16 years of his life as a refugee in Kenya’s Kakuma refugee camp, where he is a member of the Global Shapers Community’s Kakuma Hub (Curator for 2020-2021).

He is passionate about peace-building, business development, youth empowerment, refugee advocacy, education, and climate change. During his four-year tenure as an elected refugee community leader in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Deng worked closely with the camp management, the government of Kenya, and humanitarian actors, including refugees and the host community, to promote peaceful cohesion in the camp and empower young people through games and sports. Through this role and other engagements, Deng became an outspoken refugee advocate on issues affecting refugees.

Deng is leading Prime Demand Solution, a refugee youth-led enterprise working on youth empowerment, climate change, and agricultural development in the camp and its surroundings.

Deng is also a Team Leader at StepUp.One is a Social Impact Enterprise reskilling Refugees stuck in Refugee Camps with Cutting Edge Digital and Social Media Skills and deploying them to work for global executives to drive their personal and company branding and thought leadership and increase revenue and raise capital on behalf of them.