John Mustapha Kutiyote

John Mustapha Kutiyote is the co-founder and executive director of Students’ Organization for Liberty and Entrepreneurship, a think tank with the aim of promoting a free, peaceful, and prosperous South Sudan.

Kutiyote was born in December 1982 in Western Equatoria State Yambio, South Sudan. He won the 2019 Africa Shark Tank Award by Atlas Network for his entrepreneurial idea for South Sudanese women to own property. Kutiyote's organization offers entrepreneurship training, lectures, and educational seminars to promote liberty and free trade. In 2022, his organization started a Stakeholders Training Program to educate individuals in power to uphold the rights of women to own property.