Dr. Al-Hafiz Ibrahim Ahmed Saleh is a Research Fellow specializing in the philosophy of political economy and international development. He was an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, formerly Zalingei University and an academic and political researcher at the Institute for Peace and Development Studies, previously located in Khartoum. Dr. Saleh previously held the positions of Director General of the Central Bureau of Statistics in Sudan, and holds a PhD in Philosophy in Political Economy from the Sudan University of Science and Technology.