Mohammed Seid Ali Mohammed Seid Ali (PhD) is an Associate Professor of Political Economy at the Department of Political Science and International Studies at Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia. He also serves as the Head of Water Governance at Blue Nile Institute, Bahir Dar University. Dr. Ali is also a permanent academic staff member of the Department of Political Science and International Studies at Bahir Dar University. He offers key undergraduate and graduate program courses such as Business Ethics and Corporate Law, Investment Law, Africa and the Global Political Economy, Public Policy, Human Rights, International Relations, African Politics, and Global Governance. Dr Ali has also been a visiting presidential scholar at the African Studies Centre at the University of Michigan in 2021. With a diverse and interdisciplinary academic background in Philosophy, Law, Political Science, and Political Economy, his research interests encompass International Relations, African and global political economy, Global Governance, Business Ethics, Sustainability, Business and Human Rights, Political Institutions, African Politics, Migration, and refugee studies. He has recently concluded his short research visit under the Coimbra Group Scholarship Programme at KU Leuven, Belgium. I have won 2 Erasmus Mundus Staff Mobility Fellowships (University of Sivas (Turkey, April 2024) and ISS, Hague (Netherlands, April 2025). In addition to his ongoing professional contribution as an associate editor of the Ethiopian Journal of Social Science, he works in the African Politics Conference Group at the American Political Science Association (APSA). He is currently one of the few African scholars who won the 2025 African Peace building Network individual research fellowship.

 Personal Data:
Name: Mohammed Seid Ali
Date of birth: 10/10/1985
 Academic Education/Degrees:
1. Associate Professor of Political Economy , June 30, 2022
2. PhD in Political Science and International Studies, March 17, 2022, Bahir Dar University (Ethiopia),
Major Subject: Political Science and International Studies
Topic of Dissertation: The Political Economy of Apparel Exporting Industrial Parks in Ethiopia
3. Master of Arts in Philosophy (Specialization in Applied Philosophy), March 2010, Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia)
4. Bachelor Degree in Law, March 2013, University of Gondar (Ethiopia)
5. Bachelor of Art Degree in Philosophy Major and Political Science Minor, July 2005, Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia)
 Posts and positions of primary importance
1. Head of Water Governance at Blue Nile Water Institute
2. Ethical (Research) Review board, Bahir Dar University
3. Chairperson, Political Economy, Bahir Dar· University
4. Discipline and Grievance Affairs Directorate Director, University of Gondar
5. Department Head of Civic and Ethical studies, University of Gondar

 Teaching Experience and PhD Supervisions
1. Thought Sustainability and Development to PhD Students at the Department of Political Science and International Relations, Gondar University
2. Thought three courses (Political Theory, Political Economy and Global Governance) to PhD Students at the Department of Political Science and International Studies, Bahir Dar University
3. Delivered courses such as Applied Ethics (Development Ethics and Environment Ethics), Political Economy and Development theories in the MA Program at the Department of Political Science and International Studies, Bahir Dar University
4. Delivered courses such as Critical thinking, Moral Philosophy, Political Philosophy, International Law, Professional Ethics, Gondar and Bahir Dar Universities
5. Previously supervised 22 MA students in three different programs (Civic and Ethical Studies, Political Science, and Development Studies)
6. Currently supervising 6 PhD students in Political Science and International Studies program and 4 MA students in the Civic and Ethical Studies program, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia
7. Currently supervising 4 MA Students at the Department of Civic and Ethical Studies program, Bahir Dar University,

 Research allocations and grants during the last five years
1. Social Protections and Labor rights at Ethiopia’s Apparel Exporting Industrial Parks. Frontier I [2020 – Current ], 3000 USD, Frontieri Consult PLC,
2. The Dynamics of Blood Feud and Its Impact in Amhara Regional State Ethiopia [2017 – 2019] , 2017, 20000USD, Bahir Dar University
3. Human rights contexts of Large Scale Private Agricultural investments in Amhara National Regional State(2020-Current),40,000 USD, Bahir Dar University
4. Contending Perspectives among Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan over the Utilization of the Nile (2017-2022) 
5. British Council Ethiopian Universities Peace Research award (2023), 2000 USD, British Council
6. American Political Science Association Small Research Grant Award,5000 USD (2022)

 Most Important Expert Assignments
1. Associate Editor of the Ethiopian Journal of Social Science (EJSS), Bahir Dar University
2. Committee of the PhD Dissertation Moc Defense Program of the department of Political Science and International Studies
3. Nominating Committee of Best Article Award of 2020’s Africa Research and Conference Group Award under American Political Science Association
4. Member of the committee for the preparation of Bahir Dar University External Projects Management Guideline
5. Nominating Committee of the APCG-African Affairs Best Graduate Student Paper Award organized by the American Political Science Association (2020)
6. Member, African Research and Conference Council under the American Political Science Association (2020- Current)
7. Member, Curriculum developing committee for the BA and MA program in Philosophy, Bahir Dar University, 2019
8. Member, Curriculum developing committee for the MA and PhD Program in Political Science and International Studies, Bahir Dar University, 2020.

 Most important scientific acknowledgements and awards (including international fellowship)
1. Erasmus Mundes International Staff Mobility Program at the University of Sivas (2024)
2. Research fellow at Coimbra Group Short Stay Scholarship Program, KU Leuven (October 1- December 1, 2023).
3. Erasmus Mendes Staff Mobility Program, University of Sivas,Turkey,2024
4. The University of Michigan African Presidential Scholar (UMPAS) University of Michigan, African Studies Center, USA (August1,2021- Feburary30 2022)
5. Won American Political Science Association’s Small Research Grant Award (2021/2022)
6. Winner of Ethiopia’s best annual partial dissertation grant Award by Frontier International Ethiopia 2019/2020
7. Best annual researcher and teacher award by the department of political science and international studies (2020 and 2021)

 Outreach/impact activities:
As I have explained above, I have more than 30 publications including my latest book, of which most of them have societal impacts. For example, the impacts of the following three articles could be summarized as follows:
1. Gubaye A, Kumilachew S, Mohammed S & Abebe D. 2021. The nexus between shimglina as ADR and the formal criminal justice system: The case of the Amhara regional state, Ethiopia. ACCORD, Volume 21, Number 1, 2021 (141-159).
This article has been presented to key stakeholders of the Ethiopian criminal justice system. As a result, it has played key role in terms of modifying the country’s criminal policies by incorporating indigenous conflict resolution schemes, which are at the center of the article.
2. Ali,M.S (2021) Curbing the Collective Voices of Workers in Ethiopia's State-led Industrialization. African Studies (ACCORD).
The outcome this research work exposes series of labour rights violations in Ethiopia’s Industrial Parks. Its outcome has been presented to ILO representatives, human rights organizations and to the Ethiopian federal ministry of labour and social affairs. As a result, it has contributed to the latest labour legislations of the country which is relatively protective to labour rights of local industrial workers.
3. Ali and Admassu (2021) The Politics of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) – an Ethiopian Perspective, ACCORD. https://www.accord.org.za/analysis/the-politicsof-t
This output of this work has been published in the magazine of ACCORD Monitor based in South Africa. Moreover, it had been broadcasted in the Ethiopian national TV, Amhara TV and other affiliated local radio programs. As a result, it has successful in mobilizing the Ethiopians to own and support the GERD project.

Complete Lists of Publication
I: Book
M. S. Ali (2024) The Political Economy of Apparel Exporting Industrial Parks in Ethiopia, International Political Economy Series, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-60490-4
II: Pear reviewed Articles
1. Mikaelu, T. A., & Ali, M. S. (2025). The Socio-Cultural Perceptions of the Local Communities and Handcraft Occupation in Amhara Regional State, Ethiopia. International Journal on Minority and Group Rights, 1(aop), 1-28.
2. Bitew, B., Seid, M., & Amare, S. (2025). The impact of the colonial thesis on state-society relations in Ethiopia. African Security Review, 1-17. 

3. Ali, M. S. (2024). Genesis of Labour Relations in Africa: Ethiopia in Context. In The Political Economy of Apparel Exporting Industrial Parks in Ethiopia (pp. 121-148). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. 

4. Ademe, S. M., & Ali, M. S. (2023). Foreign intervention and legacies in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church. Heliyon, 9(3),1-10
5. Ali, M. S. (2016). Jurisprudential challenges to freedom of expression in Ethiopia: Critical re-flections on selected legislations of the country. The Internet Journal Language, Culture and Society,pp.1-12. 

6. Ali, M. (2021). The curbing of the collective voices of workers in Ethiopia’s state-led industrialization: the case of the garment sector. Afr J Conflict Resolut, 21(1), 35-58. 

7. Beyene, S. D., Ali, M. S., Taye, B., & Endalew, Y. W. (2023). Questioning the democracy–growth debate in countries of the East African region: a political economy perspective. Journal of Social and Economic Development, 1-23.

 8. Ali, M. S., & Ademe, S. M. (2023). Strong business–state alliances at the expense of labour rights in Ethiopia’s apparel-exporting industrial parks. African Journal of Business Ethics, 17(1), 1-21.

 9. Nigusie, A. A., & Ali, M. S. (2019). ‘Developmental State’as an Alternative Development Path in Ethiopia: Miracle or Mirage?. Bandung, 6(1), 50-76. 

10. Nigusie, A. A., & Ali, M. S. (2020). Africa in the Global Economy: Between Integration and Marginalization?. Bandung, 7(1), 24-51. 

11. Ali, M. S. (2015). Morality and Politics with Reference to Machiavelli's the Prince. European Scientific Journal, 11(17). 

12. Anteneh, K. S., Alamineh, G. A., Ali, M. S., & Denberu, A. D. (2021). The causes of blood feud in Amhara regional state, Ethiopia. African Studies, 80(3-4), 357-375.

 13. Alamineh, G. A., Dires Dinberu, A., Ali, M. S., & Anteneh, K. S. (2023). Impacts of blood feud
in Amhara National Regional State, Ethiopia. African Identities, 21(1), 166-176.
14. Assaye, Siferray, Ali & Dinberu. (2021). The nexus between shimglina as ADR and the formal criminal justice system: The case of the Amhara regional state, Ethiopia. Afr J Conflict Resolut, 21(1), Volume 21, Number 1, 2021 (141-159) 

15. Ali, M., & Admasu, E. (2021). The Politics of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD)—An Ethiopian Perspective. ACCORD Conflict and Resilience Monitor.
16. Ali, M.S (2016). Disability and Employment: An Exploratory Ethnography of Peoples with Disabilities in Ethiopian Universities, the Internet Journal Language, Culture and Society.

 17. Ali, M. S., & Mazengia, M. A. (2018). The State of Africa in the Global Political Economy. South Asian Journal of Social Studies and Economics, 1(3), 1-9. 

18. Ali, M. S. (2015). A critical assessment of freedom of expression in a democratic politics. European Scientific Journal, 11(17). 

19. Beyene, E., Khan, A., & Ali, M. S. (2018). The dynamics of Ethiopia-Sudan relations over the hydro-politics of Nile. Insight on Africa, 10(2), 150-168.
20. Ali and Adimassu (2018). Likelihoods of Conflicts and Cooperation between Ethiopia and Sudan over GERD (Faculty of Social Sciences Journal (FSS).
21. Ali, M.S., (2019) Markakis, John. (2018) Ethiopia: The Last Two Frontiers.
Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, NY: NY: James Currey. xvi+ 383 pp. ISBN 978-1-84701-074-2, 2019, Faculty of Social Sciences Journal ,Bahir Dar University (Book Review) 7.
22. Ali, M.S. (2018). Hobbes’s Political Philosophy: A Methodological Conundrum?, Society and Politics Vol. 8 / No .2 / 2018, ISSN : 2248 – 9479 12.
23. Ali, M.S. and Aslam, Kahan (2019) CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES TO FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY, 2019.Current Affairs Research Journal (An International Journal for the New Age Mind), Volume: LVXXVII. 9.

 24. Ademe, S. M., & Ali, S. M. (2022). Contradictions among the Elites in Ethiopia: Using Negative Labelling of Opponents as a Means of Political Mobilization. African Renaissance (1744-2532), 19(4). 

25. Ademe, S. M., & Ali, M. S. (2022). Democratization in the Ethiopian State from 2018–2021: A Mirage or Miracle?. Journal of Somali Studies: Research on Somalia and the Greater Horn of African Countries, 9(3), 9-25. 

26. Alene, N. M., Ali, M. S., & Tadesse, K. Y. (2023). Africa’s Quest for Reform of the United Nations Security Council: A Just Cause Curbed by Unrealistic Proposals. African Journal on Conflict Resolution, 23(1), 60-83. 27. Alene, N. M., Ali, M. S (2023) Debating the Reform of the United Nations Security Council: An African Perspective. ACCORD Monitor.
28. Ali, M.S., and Nigusie, A.S.. (2022). The Paradox of the “Developmental State” Experiment in Ethiopia: a Critical Examination. In Desalegn Amsalu, ed. Ethiopian in Transformation: Tangling of Ideas and the Quest for Path (pp. 71-86). Tianjin: Tianjin University Press.
29. Ali, M.S., Demissie,T. and Yimam, K.:Assessing the role of social media in de/promoting peaceful coexistence among students: A focus on Bahir Dar University. Letters of acknowledgment included 

30. Beyene, S. D., Ali, M. S., Taye, B., & Endalew, Y. W.: Labour Rights Abuses as the Cold Currents of Economic Globalization in Multinational Apparel Exporting Firms in Ethiopia. Letters of acknowledgment included. 

31. Bitew,B &Ali, M.S.: Echoes of the Past: The Emergence and Identity Construction of Amhara Nationalism in Ethiopia: Letters of acknowledgment included. 

32. Bitew,B &Ali, M.S: The Enduring Legacy of the Colonial Discourse on Ethiopian Politics and the Rise of Amhara Nationalism: Letters of acknowledgment included.

 33. Abeje,T. and Ali: The Socio-Cultural Perceptions of the Local Communities and Handcraft Occupation in Amhara regional state, Ethiopia. Letters of acknowledgment included.

 34. Ali, M.S.: Historical Track-record of Labour Relations in Ethiopia,1923-2020:A Human SecurityPerspective: Letters of acknowledgment included.
35. Ali, M. S. , Hazel Barrett, Kebede Yimam, Michaelina Jakala and Taye Demissie: Assessing the role of social media in de/promoting peaceful coexistence among students: Bahir Dar University in Context. Coventry Press: Letters of acknowledgment included.