Ali is a Senior Consultant at the International Finance Corporation.

Ali is a Senior Consultant at the International Finance Corporation. He was one of the key founding members of Tameer Bank—a commercial microfinance bank established in 2005 to offer full range of financial services to the underserved in Pakistan. He served as the Group Executive Director for Operations and Technology and headed the Mobile Banking Initiative. Ali's specialties are new business development, greenfield operations and technology set-up, payment systems, and innovation.