Bio

Mohammed Seid Ali, PhD, is an Associate Professor 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 Political Philosophy and Theory, Africa and the Global Political Economy, 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 Political Philosophy and Theory, African and global political economy, International Relations, Global Governance, Political Institutions, Migration, and refugee studies. He has recently concluded his short research visit under the Coimbra Group Scholarship Programme at KU Leuven, Belgium. He has 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).