Alhussain Abdalla is a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center. His work focuses on the future of energy, investment, and economic development across Africa, with a particular emphasis on Libya, and examines how governance, political transitions, and economic policy shape North Africa’s future. Abdalla is a political analyst and journalist with more than a decade of experience analyzing political and economic developments across North Africa and the broader Middle East. His work has focused extensively on Libya’s governance challenges, economic development, and evolving political landscape.
Previously, he served as a political researcher at an embassy in Washington, DC, where he analyzed US political and foreign policy developments affecting the Middle East and North Africa. He also served as newsroom director and senior journalist at Al-Ahrar Libya TV, leading coverage of regional politics, conflict, and diplomacy, and supported conflict-resolution initiatives aimed at fostering dialogue on Libya’s future.
He is fluent in Arabic and English. Abdalla earned a BS from Omar Al-Mukhtar University in Libya and completed coursework in political science at Colorado State University. He is originally from Al-Bayda, Libya.