Staff
Hamza Saidi is a Program Officer (Partnerships) at the Policy Center for the New South (PCNS).
At the PCNS, Hamza Saidi contributes to the Center’s partnership portfolio by supporting the development, coordination, and follow-up of collaborative initiatives with a wide range of partners. His work involves facilitating joint projects and high-level events that foster dialogue and the exchange of ideas on topics of mutual interest.
Before joining the PCNS in December 2024, Hamza Saidi was Project Manager at the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung’s Regional Program Energy Security and Climate Change Middle East and North Africa (KAS-REMENA). In this role, he coordinated partnerships and engagement with local, regional, and international partners, conceptualizing and implementing projects across the Middle East and North Africa and Europe, on themes including geopolitics, climate change, water-energy-food security, renewable energy, green entrepreneurship, peacebuilding through cooperation, and transboundary water management.
Hamza Saidi was also an Adjunct Professor of English at the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences of University Mohammed V in the academic year 2017/2018 and served as Regional Research Assistant at the Global Young Academy (GYA) for the GloSYS Africa project in the same year. Prior to that, he worked for 3 years as a Program Leader at Rustic Pathways, an experiential education travel company.
Hamza Saidi holds an undergraduate degree from University Mohammed V and a master’s degree from University Cadi Ayyad, and is a PhD candidate in social sciences at Mohammed V University in Rabat (research currently on hiatus). Hamza Saidi is fluent in Arabic, English, and Tamazight.
Hamza Saidi is an Atlantic Dialogues Emerging Leader (ADEL 2023), Wilson Center Agents of Change Youth Fellow, United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) Fellow, U.S. Department of State Professional Fellow, and World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Shaper alumnus.
