Ali is the Deputy Director of Itad US and works in both program management and business development.
Ali has more than 13 years of experience managing large-scale research, evaluation and learning programmes in fragile and conflict-affected and development settings.
She brings strong expertise in business development, programme design, operational management and the delivery of evidence and analysis for USAID, the U.S. Department of State, FCDO, MCC, Foundations, and multilateral agencies including the World Bank, UNICEF, Unitaid, UN Women, and UNFPA.
For the past few years, Ali has overseen Itad’s portfolio of U.S. Government-funded work and previously directed or provided senior management support to several major USAID programs, including:
- the Learning for Development Activity in Nepal
- the Inclusive Resilience in Somalia (IRiS) program
- the Peacebuilding through Evaluation, Learning and Adaptation (PELA II) in West Africa
- the Localize Global Health Security program
- and the Innovation Design, Execution and Acceleration Support (IDEAS) activity.
Her work has included programme start-up and implementation, theory of change development, evidence reviews, MEL Plan development and survey design, partner coordination and day-to-day oversight of teams in program countries.
Before joining Itad, Ali spent nearly a decade with IMC Worldwide (now DT Global), where she advanced to Managing Associate and led evaluation, research and programme start-up activities across education, economic development, and humanitarian portfolios.
She has field experience in Mexico, Haiti, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Ghana, Turkey, Nepal, India, South Africa, and Thailand.
Ali holds a Master’s in Public Administration from Roskilde University in Denmark and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Kalamazoo College in the United States. She is a board member at Rooted Wisdom Africa, a Ugandan NGO that focuses on the economic empowerment and income generation in rural Uganda.
