Hamza Saidi is a versatile civil society and youth empowerment advocate with extensive project management and partnerships experience in fast-paced, complex environments in the Middle East and North Africa and the wider Mediterranean region, including in relation to the EU. Since 2018, he has been a Project Manager at Konrad Adenauer Stiftung's Regional Program Energy Security and Climate Change Middle East and North Africa (KAS-REMENA). In this role, he leads partnerships and liaises with local, regional, and international stakeholders, conceptualizing and implementing key projects across the region and the EU on various topics related to KAS-REMENA's scope of work. Areas of work Hamza tackles include geopolitics, climate change, water/energy/food security, peacebuilding through cooperation, renewable energies, green entrepreneurship, transboundary water cooperation. Hamza combines perspectives from MEA region with EU with the goal of bridging cooperation through dialogue and research.

Before joining KAS, Hamza was an adjunct professor of English at the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences of Mohamed V University in Rabat and a regional research assistant at Global Young Academy (GYA), where he was in charge of North Africa for the GloSYS Africa project. He also served as a program leader at Rustic Pathways, Experiential Education Travel Company for three years.

Hamza is, inter alia, an Atlantic Dialogue Emerging Leader (Policy Center for the New South), Wilson Center Agents of Change Youth Fellow, United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) Fellow, U.S. Department of State Professional Fellow, World Economic Forum Global Shaper, and a co-founder of the Youth Forum for Democracy and Citizenship (YFDC), a non-profit association that empowers young Moroccans to participate in social and political change. He holds a BA from Mohammed V University in Rabat and an MA from Cadi Ayyad University in Marrakech.

In a previous life, Hamza was a folktale storyteller, a street photographer, and a cultural mediator.