Zaid Al-Ali

Visiting Fellow at Princeton University

Zaid Al-Ali is Visiting Fellow at Princeton University, and is a Senior Adviser on Constitution Building for International IDEA.  He has practiced international commercial arbitration since 1999 and previously worked at the United Nations in Iraq.  He has worked on constitutional building process and peace building in Iraq, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Yemen and Mali.  He has taught at Princeton University, Sciences-Po (Paris) and the Central European University.  He was a Law and Public Affairs Fellow at Princeton and a fellow at the Berlin Institute of Advances Studies.  He is the author of ‘The Struggle for Iraq’s Future’ (Yale, 2014) and ‘Arab Constitutionalism: The coming revolution’ (Cambridge, 2021).