Syed Mohammed Ali
Anthropologist and Social Scientist
Dr. S. M. Ali has extensive experience working with multilateral, bilateral, government, and non-government organizations on varied international development challenges.
He is the author of several peer-reviewed articles and book chapters as well as the book Development, Poverty and Power in Pakistan: The Impact of State and Donor Interventions on Farmers, published by Routledge in 2015. His other recent publications include a special report on the devolution of power in Pakistan for the United States Institute of Peace. Dr. Ali also writes a weekly op-ed in the Express Tribune, an affiliate of the New York Times in Pakistan.
He is also a “Country of Origin Expert” for South Asian (Bangladeshi, Pakistani Indian and Sri Lankan) asylum seekers in the U.S. and the U.K.
Dr. Ali has a Ph.D. from the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. He has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in Australia, Pakistan, and the United States.
The travails of Pakistan’s economy over the year seem far from over, but they have surely revealed the resilience of Pakistan in an emphatic manner,
Unprecedented load shedding caused a countrywide closure of factories and businesses, giving rise to massive unemployment and civil unrest, that started from Faisalabad and Karachi, spreading to
For Policy and Strategy. Identifying and addressing key issues with actionable solutions that Pakistan, and more broadly South and Central Asia faces.
