Dr. Shaukat Ali is a Climate Change Expert who holds a PhD in Meteorology and has 16 years of professional experience, along with additional qualifications including an LLB with a focus on Environmental Law and a diploma in GIS. He is currently working as a Research Fellow at the Centre for Global Child Health, SickKids Hospital, Toronto, Canada. He also serves as the Regional Contact for Central Asia under WCRP-CORDEX, a Member of the Regional Working Group on American Monsoons of WMO-WCRP, and as Senior Scientific Officer for the Global Climate-Change Impact Studies Centre (GCISC), Ministry of Climate Change, Pakistan. His work with these organizations supports climate data downscaling and analysis, extreme events, climate change impacts on health, and capacity building, including conducting global workshops on climate data analysis and science communication.
Dr. Ali has been a visiting scholar at several globally renowned institutions, including the Chinese Academy of Sciences (China), the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP, Italy), the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA, Austria), and the APEC Climate Center (APCC, Korea). He has successfully led and collaborated on numerous international initiatives funded by organizations such as the Wellcome Trust, APN, and WCRP-CORDEX. Additionally, Dr. Ali promotes gender equity in atmospheric sciences by conducting specialized training programs for women. He is also actively engaged in disseminating his scientific findings to policymakers and the general public through media platforms, policy briefs, public outreach initiatives, and international forums, including WHO conferences.