Sameen Ali completed her PhD in Politics from SOAS University of London in 2018. Her doctoral thesis, "Staffing the State: The Politicisation of Bureaucratic Appointments in Pakistan", explores the use of bureaucratic appointments by both politicians and bureaucrats to achieve particular outcomes. Prior to starting her PhD, Sameen completed her MSc in Comparative Politics (Research) from the London School of Economics & Political Science, where she was a Commonwealth Scholar, and a BSc (Hons.) Social Sciences from the Lahore University of Management Sciences.
Sameen's teaching and research interests include governance and patterns of bureaucratic appointment, electoral management and party politics, public health, and donor engagement in LMICs. She is currently working on a public health project, “Understanding Pakistan’s Immunization Problem: A transactional approach”, funded by the Shahid Hussain Foundation's Public Health Research Grant 2018-19 and 2019-20.
Sameen is a faculty lead at the Technology for People Initiative (TPI), a non-profit applied research centre based at LUMS
Ali, S. (2020). Party patronage and merit-based bureaucratic reform in Pakistan. Commonwealth and Comparative Politics.
Ali, S. (2020). Governance amid Crisis: Delegation, Personal Gain, and Service Delivery in Pakistan, Accepted. Mariam Mufti, Sahar Shafqat, and Niloufer Siddiqui (Eds.), Pakistan's Political Parties: Surviving between Dictatorship and Democracy, (pp. 178-194).
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). '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). 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. MPSA, Chicago, United States of America.
Ali, S. (2019). Delivering 'Good Governance': The Politicisation of Bureaucratic Appointments in Pakistan. AAS-in-Asia 2019 Annual Conference, Bangkok, Thailand.
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'. Development Studies Association (DSA) Annual Conference, University of Oxford, Oxford, 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. (2014). 'Election Management & Party Decision Making in Pakistan'. European Conference on South Asian Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
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'. Political Studies Association 2014 Conference, Manchester, United Kingdom.