Dr. Mohammed Masbah currently serves as is the Founder and President of the Moroccan Institute for Policy Analysis (MIPA) and a fellow with the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (NPSIA).Prior to these roles, he was a an Associate Fellow at Chatham House in London, a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center and a fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, SWP) in Berlin.

As a political sociologist, Dr. Masbah’s work concentrates on key areas such as institutional reforms, public policy, democratization, and political Islam. He has authored an extensive collection of academic and policy-oriented papers and has conducted numerous training and teaching sessions on public policy and policy analysis. During his tenure at MIPA, he managed multiple research projects involved policy analysis using both quantitative and qualitative methods.

Dr. Masbah’s received various awards, including the Chevening Scholarship from the British Government in 2021, the Prize for the Best Ph.D. Dissertation in Social Sciences in 2017 from Mohamed V University, and the Research Grant from the African Peacebuilding Network of the Social Science Research Council, New York.