Hamid E. Ali
Fellow
Hamid E. Ali is Dean of the School of Public Administration and Development Economics at Doha Institute for Graduate Studies and an Associate Professor at the American University in Cairo 2008–present. Ali received an M.Sc. in Economics and Management from the University of North Texas in 1995 and an M.Sc. in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin in 2000 as well as a Ph.D. in Economic and Public Policy from the University of Texas in Austin in 2004.
He was a researcher at US Government Accountability Office (GAO), where he was a major contributor on various reports to US congressional committees. As an expert on the Sudan conflict, he has been invited to different forums at the US Institute for Peace, the US State Department, and Chatham House. Ali also has taught at Texas State University and Southern Methodist University.
Hamid Ali is the author of Darfur Political Economy: A Quest for Development (Routledge, 2014) and co-author with Christos Kollias of Defense Spending, Natural Resources, and Conflict Routledge (2017). Ali is also the author and co-author of articles in scholarly journals such as Peace Research, Food Policy, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, and Defence and Peace Economics. Ali’s primary research interests centered around peace economics, economic inequality, defense spending, natural resources, and conflict.
Recent articles include:
Ali, Hamid E., and Sakiru Solarin. 2019. "Military Spending, Corruption and the Welfare Consequences," Published online, forthcoming, Defence and Peace Economics, https://doi.org/10.1080/10242694.2019.1567181.
Ali, Hamid E. 2020. “Public Perception of Rentier Elites in the Middle East and North Africa.” International Journal of Public Administration, Vol. 43(5), 392–403, https://doi.org/10.1080/01900692.2019.1677710.