Ferdinand von Habsburg-Lothringen has provided advisory support to heads of government, the UN and NGO leadership around developing strategies and programmes in conflict and post-conflict South Sudan and Sudan between 1995 and 2015 as well as in politically-turbulent Maldives after the first democratic elections from 2009 to 2011. He continues to provide contextual analysis, both to humanitarian, stabilisation and development organisations and regional, national and local bodies as well as the diplomatic corps. He has almost 20 years of field experience working in some of the hardest hit zones in Sudan. He currently works as advisor to the South Sudan Council of Churches in Juba.