Sameen A. Mohsin Ali is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Mushtaq Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences (MGSHSS). She completed her PhD in Politics and International Studies from SOAS University of London in 2018 and a Masters in Comparative Politics (Research) from the London School of Economics and Political Science as a Commonwealth General Scholar. Her work on bureaucratic and party politics in Pakistan has been published in World Development and Commonwealth and Comparative Politics.
Dr Ali is the Principal Investigator for a project titled “Understanding Pakistan’s Immunization Problem: A transactional approach”, funded by the Shahid Hussain Foundation's Public Health Research Grant 2018-19 and 2019-20, and by the LUMS Faculty Initiative Fund 2020. She is co-Director of the Women in Public Service in Pakistan Oral History Archive and co-Investigator for Pakistan for the Education, Justice and Memory Network (EdJAM). Dr Ali is a faculty advisor at the Technology for People Initiative (TPI) and is a co-Investigator on their FCDO funded project on financial analytics in Punjab and on a project with women's rights NGO Shirkat Gah to develop an application for women human rights defenders, Humqadam. She is a fellow of the Mahbub-ul-Haq Research Centre.
Dr Ali's research and teaching interests include governance, state capacity, bureaucratic performance, and party politics in South Asia, public health governance, and the politics of donor engagement in LMICs. She teaches a range of courses, including Introduction to Political Science, Introduction to Comparative Politics, Politics of Pakistan, and Governance and its Discontents.
Ali, S. (2020). Driving participatory reforms into the ground: The bureaucratic politics of irrigation management transfer in Pakistan. World Development.
Ali, S. (2020). Party patronage and merit-based bureaucratic reform in Pakistan. Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 58 (2), 184-201.
Ali, S. (2020). Governance amid Crisis: Delegation, Personal Gain, and Service Delivery in Pakistan, Published. Mariam Mufti, Sahar Shafqat, and Niloufer Siddiqui (Eds.), Pakistan's Political Parties: Surviving between Dictatorship and Democracy, (pp. 178-194), Georgetown University Press.
Ali, S. (2020). Networks of effectiveness? The impact of politicization on bureaucratic performance in Pakistan. Development Studies Association, Virtual, Virtual.
Ali, S. (2019). Party patronage and merit-based bureaucratic reform in Pakistan. MPSA, Chicago, United States of America.
Ali, S. (2019). Party Patronage and Merit-based Bureaucratic Reform in Pakistan. Effective States and Inclusive Development Conference (ESID), Global Development Institute, Manchester, United Kingdom.
Ali, S. (2019). Party Patronage and Merit-based Bureaucratic Reform in Pakistan. Effective States and Inclusive Development Conference (ESID), Global Development Institute, Manchester, United Kingdom.
Ali, S. (2019). 'Party Patronage and Merit-based Bureaucratic Reform in Pakistan'. Effective States and Inclusive Development Conference (ESID), Global Development Institute, Manchester 2 Sameen A. Mohsin Ali September 2019. Effective States and Inclusive Development Conference, Manchester, United Kingdom.
Ali, S. (2019). Delivering 'Good Governance': The Politicisation of Bureaucratic Appointments in Pakistan. AAS-in-Asia 2019 Annual Conference, Bangkok, Thailand.
Ali, S. (2019). 'Party Patronage and Merit-based Bureaucratic Reform in Pakistan'. Effective States and Inclusive Development Conference (ESID), Global Development Institute, Manchester 2 Sameen A. Mohsin Ali September 2019. Effective States and Inclusive Development Conference, Manchester, United Kingdom.
Ali, S. (2017). '"Wolves of the Antechamber": Bureaucratic Politicisation and the Politics of Delivery in Punjab, Pakistan'. British Association of South Asian Studies (BASAS), University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
Ali, S. (2017). 'Patronage and Bureaucratic Discretion: From Localities to Lahore'. White Rose South Asia Network Graduate Workshop, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom.
Ali, S. (2016). 'Bureaucratic Politicization & Governance in Punjab, Pakistan'.. State, Society, and Democracy in the Post Colony Conference, LUMS, Lahore, Pakistan.
Ali, S. (2016). 'Bureaucratic Politicization & Governance in Punjab, Pakistan'. Development Studies Association (DSA) Annual Conference, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Ali, S. (2014). 'Election Management & Party Decision Making in Pakistan'. Political Studies Association 2014 Conference, Manchester, United Kingdom.
Ali, S. (2014). 'Politicization of the bureaucracy and political inequality in Pakistan'. Pakistan Workshop – Bureaucracy, State, Society, and Networks, Lake District, United Kingdom.
Ali, S. (2014). 'Election Management & Party Decision Making in Pakistan'. European Conference on South Asian Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.