Aziz Ali holds Professional Master Degree in Natural Resources management from International Institute for Aero-space, Survey and Earth Science, the Netherlands, besides Master of Science degrees in Botany and Forestry from Peshawar University Pakistan. Currently Mr. Ali is pursuing his PhD degree at Philipps Universität, Marburg, Germany.  

Aziz Ali has over 20 years of professional experiences in the areas Rural Development and strategic and participatory planning around food security and livelihoods improvement through better and sustainable management of locally available natural resources including agriculture, forest, rangelands, livestock, and participatory management of water resources. Besides decades of development work and experience with rural mountain communities, he conducted research in a number of natural resources management themes in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Pamir region of Tajikistan. Mr. Ali had also been awarded with prestigious South Asia Fellowship 2017 of Cornell University, Ithaca, New York on “Vulnerability and Disaster Risk Assessment in the Emerging Scenario of Climate Change in North-Eastern Afghanistan”