Stephen Dhieu Dau Ayik is South Sudanese politician, banker by profession, and financial technocrat. He is a proven professional and held various cabinet positions in the Government of the Republic of South Sudan. He is a senior member of Sudan’s People Liberation Movement (SPLM) and had served in various cabinet positions. Stephen Dhieu Dau was the Minister of Finance and Planning until March 2018 in the RSS. He served as Minister of Petroleum and Mining and Minister of Commerce and Industry. Stephen Dhieu Dau is from Melut County, Upper Nile State, and belongs to the Nyiel section of the Padang Dinka ethnic group. In October 2022, President Salva Kiir appointed Stephen Dhieu Dau as the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the National Revenue Authority. In December 2022, He was appointed as a member of the SPLM Political Bureau. Biography Stephen Dhieu Dau Ayik was born in Melut County, Upper Nile State. Stephen Dhieu attended Renk Secondary School and went to Cairo University - Egypt, where he graduated with a Bachelor Degree of Commerce. During his studies years (1986 - 1990) at the university, he was very active student in academic, political and cultural activities in the students’ community. He was the Chief Editor of the Voice of South Sudan newspaper, was being issued by South Sudan Students Association in Egypt ( SOSSA). As the Chief Editor, he wrote extensively about political, cultural and social issues facing Sudanese people and Southern Sudanese in particularly, in the time of war that broke out in 1980s between the North and the South, specifically, the problem of national identity, the issue of religion and state and how govern a United Sudan. His writings garnered popularity among the Sudanese and Southern Sudanese living in Egypt. In 1991, Stephen Dhieu began his professional career at the Central Bank of Sudan (CBOS), formerly known, as Bank of Sudan (BoS) till the CPA era, working his way in banking profession to the senior positions’ roles in the banking control and financing dept. and foreign exchange and external relations dept. While working for the bank, he obtained a Post Graduate Diploma in Banking from the Higher Institute of Financial and Banking Studies in Khartoum and a Masters Degree in Financial and Banking Studies, from Business School, Sudan University of Science and Technology in 2005. His thesis was on examining the causes of bank insolvency. In 2006, he