President John Dramani Mahama has appointed Prof. Seidu Alidu, Associate Professor and Head of the Political Science Department at the University of Ghana, as the new Executive Secretary of the Water Resources Commission.

He brings extensive experience in academia, public policy, and governance to his new position at the Water Resources Commission.

In 2014, he was selected as a Donahue Institute Scholar in United States Political Thought at the University of Massachusetts. He also served as a fellow at the Maria Sibylla Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA), where his research focused on parliaments and democracy on the African continent.

Prof. Alidu has collaborated with a number of international and local policy institutions and think tanks. These include the Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (PASGR) in Nairobi, Kenya; the Centre for International Development Issues Nijmegen in the Netherlands; the Institute for Development Studies at the University of Sussex; the Institute for Democratic Governance; the Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung; the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); the Varieties of Democracy Project at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden; the Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff College; the German-African Governance Partnership Organization; and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) in New York.

He has published widely in his field, with articles appearing in journals such as Peace Review, Criminal Justice Studies, Transitional Justice Review, Journal of African Political Economy and Development, Contemporary Journal of African Development, and Ghana Studies.

His new role is expected to benefit from this broad-based experience and scholarly background, particularly in guiding water resource policy and governance initiatives.