John Mustapha Kutiyote is an executive director and co-founder of Students’ Organization for Liberty and Entrepreneurship (SOLE) and a women property rights activist. SOLE is a think tank in South Sudan that aims to foster a free, peaceful, and prosperous society in South Sudan. He won the 2019 Africa Shark Tank Think Tank Award by Atlas Network for pitching an entrepreneurial idea on the right of South Sudanese women to own property. He’s also a 2023 Against All Odds award winner at Hayek Global College. He’s served as a local coordinator for Students For Liberty and a campus coordinator for Foundation for Economic Education. Kutiyote is a steering committee member for the American Institute for Economic Research (Bastiat Society) chapter in South Sudan.