Teaching

Teaching qualification: Executive Certificate in Higher Education Teaching, Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University.

My teaching focuses on public administration, public management, policy analysis, policy evaluation, administrative performance and governance. I teach across core MPA areas, combining theoretical foundations with applied methods for analysing public organisations, policy processes, programme performance and institutional change. My teaching also addresses emerging challenges in digital governance and AI in the public sector.

I teach in English, French and Italian, and have taught in the United States, Canada, France, Italy, Switzerland, Qatar, Singapore, China and the United Arab Emirates.

Teaching is organised around cases from government practice: programme design under capacity constraints, evaluation systems, performance management and the regulation of AI. Students work with administrative data and policy documents from the Middle East and North Africa and the Global South.

Learning with policymakers

I bring the practice of government into the classroom. Ministers, ambassadors, parliamentarians and chief executives join my courses as invited speakers, and students question them directly on the decisions, trade-offs and constraints behind the policies they study. Recent guests include Mr Taimur Saleem Khan Jhagra, former Finance and Health Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, and Dr Bala Yusuf Yunusa, Senior Technical Advisor at the Presidency of Nigeria.

I also take students to the institutions themselves. In April 2025 I led twenty Master of Public Policy students to the Shura Council of Qatar as part of the Comparative Public Policy course: presentations on the Council’s role in proposing laws and overseeing the executive, and on its contribution to sustainable development, were followed by students’ questions and a tour of the Council.

Learning is student-centred. Sessions are built around discussion, case analysis and students’ own work with administrative data and policy documents, and students test their analysis in exchange with the practitioners they meet.

Courses taught

Executive education and civil service training

• 2024 to present
  Future Leaders Programme, Royal Academy of Management, Oman600 government officials on a two-year contract awarded through open competitive tender.
• 2023
  Strategic Foresight Training, Al Athar Center, RiyadhSixty senior Saudi government officials.
• 2023
  Programme Evaluation, Islamic Development Bank, Jeddah
• 2021 to present
  Taqyeem International Training Programme, with ENAP CanadaSenior officials from Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt and Tunisia.
• 2022
  Parliamentary Training in Evidence-Based Policy, Parliament of Sri Lanka
• 2022 to 2023
  Policy Analysis and Design, UC Berkeley and HBKU
• 2021
  Program Evaluation: Determining What Works, University of Maryland School of Public Policy
• 2020
  What Works: Program Evaluation for Policy Managers, Georgetown University Qatar

Lectures and teaching in Canada and Mexico

• Canada 2023
  Public lecture, Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo, 19 June 2023. AI in the MENA Region: Charting the Path of Digital Transformation.
• Canada 2023
  Public lecture, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ottawa: social welfare in the MENA region.
• Canada 2023
  Canadian Evaluation Society Annual Conference, Quebec City, and the International Conference on Public Policy, Toronto.
• Canada 2021 to present
  Taqyeem International Training Programme, taught with ENAP, for senior officials from six Arab countries.
• Mexico 2024
  Public lecture, El Colegio de Jalisco, Guadalajara: social protection in the Middle East.
• Mexico
  International webinar series co-organised with CIESAS Mexico.

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