About me

I am the Head of the State Fragility initiative (SFi) at the International Growth Centre (IGC). Based at the London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) and operated in partnership with Oxford University, the IGC brings together a global network of leading researchers and in-country teams in Africa and South Asia to support partner governments with demand-led policy advice based on frontier research. 

The SFi builds on the work of the LSE-Oxford Commission on State Fragility, Growth, and Development to develop and promote actionable recommendations to address dimensions of state fragility. 

Within IGC, I lead the initiative strategy and ensure its overall effectiveness at national, regional, and global scale, including liaising closely with SFi funders. I have overall responsibility for the continued quality of the initiative work which include: 

• national-level engagements with policymakers of countries undergoing pivotal moments, where exit from fragility may be possible, with the flagship engagement being in Yemen

• the DFI Fragility Forum, which brings together DFIs to improve the effectiveness of job-creating private investment in fragile and conflict-affected environments, as well as broader work on development finance and private sector development in fragile contexts

• programme of work on scaling up investments in energy access in fragile settings

• thematic leadership on state fragility issues within the wider IGC. 

Contact details:

Email: A.Ali49[at]lse.ac.uk or abdilahi.ali[at]theigc.org

Public profiles:

NEC: https://nec.gov.so/teams/abdilahi-ali/

Linkedin: https://uk.linkedin.com › abdi-ali-5b632416a

Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Abdilahi_Ali

Ideas.repec profile: https://ideas.repec.org/f/pal833.html

Researcher ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5398-0450

Google Scholar: 

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