Ali Ahmad is an energy policy and economics scholar at Harvard Kennedy School, where he works on energy security and resilience and the political economy of nuclear energy in newcomer markets. Prior to joining HKS, Ali served as Director of the Energy Policy and Security Program at the American University of Beirut. From 2013 to 2016, Ali was a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security where he worked on informing nuclear diplomacy with Iran. Outside academia, Ali is a senior consultant at the World Bank advising the Energy and Extractive Industries Global Practice. Ali holds a first degree in Physics from the Lebanese University and a PhD in Engineering from Cambridge University.

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