Background
Ali, a Pashtun, was born in Swat in 1955 in Pakistan and obtained her Bachelor, Bachelor of Laws and an Master of Arts in Political Science from the University of Peshawar.
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Shaheen Sardar Ali
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A Foreign and Commonwealth Scholarship allowed her to come to the United Kingdom in 1990 to take an Master of Laws in international law at Hull University.
Career
She is a professor of law at the University of Warwick. She returned to Pakistan and gained a professorship at Peshawar University in 1995. Three years later, she returned to the United Kingdom, teaching as a law lecturer at the University of Warwick.
Ali is fluent in Urdu, Pashtu and Punjabi, can read and write Arabic and has a working knowledge of Persian.
Ali often contributes to radio and television programmes and appears as commentator on current affairs and debates. She is also the current vice-chair of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) working group on arbitrary detention.
Membership
Furthermore, she serves as a consultant for the British Council, the World Bank, UNIFEM, International Labor Organization, North America Air Defense and Radda Barnen and is a member of the British Council Task Force on Gender and Development.
