A reform-minded policy architect who turns research and lived experience into governance designs that actually hold — trained to build structures before he was trained to reform institutions.
Every publication, briefing and appearance sits under one of four connected disciplines.
Civil service reform, public administration, ministerial performance, anti-corruption architecture.
Security sector governance, DDR, community safety, mediation, conflict sensitivity.
Civil society sustainability, migration and displacement, youth and the labour market.
Elections, political settlements, constitutional questions, accountability and transparency.
Mohammed Saleh Tantoush is a researcher, policy expert, and project manager specialising in institutional reform — working across governance, peace-building, and public administration in Libya. Trained first as a civil engineer at the University of Tripoli, he went on to earn a Master's in Public Administration and Public Policy from the University of York, with a dissertation on civil service reform in Libya.
He currently serves as Head of Almagharbia Foundation and CEO of Almoasher, alongside work as a consultant with DCAF (Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance) as Regional Coordinator for Tripolitania, focused on Security Sector Reform (SSR). He also writes constantly for Alpheratz Magazine on Libyan politics, governance, and security.
Evidence for decisions that hold. Paid advisory, research, MEL and governance design for donors, INGOs, government and private clients.
Public policy. Democratic practice. Independent, public-interest research and civic education for democratic enhancement in Libya.
How Libyan public-sector employment became a mechanism for distributing oil rent and buying political loyalty since independence.
An account of how Haftar built and rebuilt alliances over five decades to consolidate control in eastern Libya.
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