Mahmoud Hamad holds a joint appointment as a Director of the Public Policy and International Security programs at Cairo National University (associate dean) and Associate Professor of Political Science and Constitutional Law at Cairo university.

He received his from Ph.D. Department of Political Science, University of Utah. Mahmoud was a Fulbright Scholar, University of Washington, 1999-2000. He received his M.A. and B.A. from Cairo University. Mahmoud is a Non-resident Fellow, Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, Brandeis University.

He previously served as a Constitutional Expert, Office of the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria; a Legal Expert, Judicial Reform in Tunisia, High Judicial Council, UNDP, and OHCHR and was the Lead Expert, Libyan Constitutional Drafting Assembly. Dr. Hamad was the founding Secretary General of the Arab Association of Constitutional Law. He published extensively in English and Arabic. His book Judges and Generals in the Making of Modern Egypt: How Institutions Sustain and Undermine Authoritarian Regimes, was published by Cambridge University Press, 2018.