Dr Sameen A. Mohsin Ali

• PhD in Politics and International Studies, SOAS University of London, 2018
• MSc in Comparative Politics (Research), London School of Economics and Political Science, 2010
• BSc (Hons) in Social Sciences, Lahore University of Management Sciences, 2008

Sameen completed her PhD in Politics and International Studies from SOAS University of London in 2018. Her dissertation investigated relationships of patronage amongst politicians and bureaucrats in Pakistan as a means of targeting service delivery.

Sameen is a member of the Education, Justice and Memory Network (EdJAM), an AHRC GCRF funded project investigating the teaching and learning of violent pasts in Pakistan, the UK, Cambodia, Colombia, and Uganda. She is Co-Director of the Women in Public Service in Pakistan Oral History Archive Project and a fellow at the Mahbub-ul-Haq Research Centre (MHRC), both based at the Lahore University of Management Sciences.

• Public Sector Reform 

Research interests

• Bureaucratic politics and state capacity
• The politics of bureaucratic reform
• Citizen-bureaucrat interactions
• Immunization and public health education
• Teaching and learning about violent pasts

Current and recent projects

• Co-Investigator - Zaffar, F., S.A.M. Ali, A. Zaffar, and S. Shahid. Dynamic Financial Data Analytics-PIFRA. Innovation Challenge Fund, Sub National Governance Program, Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO).
• Co-Director - Women in Public Service in Pakistan Oral History Archive Project
• Co-Investigator - Paulson, J., et al. Education, Justice and Memory Network (EdJAM). Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) UKRI GCRF Network Plus 2021.
• Primary Investigator - Understanding Pakistan's Immunization Problem: A transactional approach II, Shahid Hussain Foundation Public Health Research Grant 2018-2019; 2019-2020.

• Consultant – Pakistan expert, COVID-19 and Federalism’s First Wave Response, Forum of Federations (August-October 2020)
• Consultant – Governance and the Pandemic Expert Survey, Working Paper Series for the Governance Programme at the Aga Khan University, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, London. May 2020.
• Reviewer - Bertelsmann Transformation Index, Bertelsmann Stiftung, December 2020-February 2021.
• Consultant - SAFE-App Project. Shirkat Gah and Democratic Commission for Human Development, with Dr Suleman Shahid and Dr Fareed Zaffar, 2020-2021.
• Consultant - Political Economy specialist, Scoping Study, DFID Pakistan Water and Natural Resources Governance Programme, July-August 2019.