Mohammed Seid Ali

Mohammed Seid Ali (PhD) is an academic staff at the Department of Political Sciences and International Studies at Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia. He has more than seventeen years of experience in research, community engagement, and teaching and has a strong work ethic and a commitment to excellence. 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, environmental ethics and sustainable development, law, and political science, his research interests encompass African and global political economy, political theory, applied ethics (including business and environmental contexts), democratization, transitional and restorative justice, and human security. 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,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).

Recent publications

Ali, M. S. (2024). The political economy of apparel exporting industrial parks in Ethiopia. International Political Economy Series. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-60490-4

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.

Ademe, S. M., & Ali, M. S. (2023). Foreign intervention and legacies in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church. Heliyon, 9(3), 1-10.

Ali, M. S. (2016). Jurisprudential challenges to freedom of expression in Ethiopia: Critical reflections on selected legislations of the country. The Internet Journal of Language, Culture and Society, 1-12.

Ali, M. S. (2021). The curbing of the collective voices of workers in Ethiopia’s state-led industrialization: The case of the garment sector. African Journal on Conflict Resolution, 21(1), 35-58.