Dr. Shaukat Ali,
PhD in Meteorology
LLB with Environmental Law
Email: pirshauki@gmail.com
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Dr. Shaukat Ali holds PhD in Meteorology from Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He also has LLB degree with special focus on Environmental Law and one year GIS diploma. Currently, He is working as Senior Scientific Officer in Global Change Impact Study Centre (GCISC), Ministry of Climate Change, Government of Pakistan. He started his career as a lecturer in the University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (UAJK) and then worked for Pakistan Science Foundation, and Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Islamabad, Pakistan. He has the honor of visiting research scholar in world reputed organizations e.g. 1. Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy, 2. International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) - Vienna, Austria and 3. APEC Climate Center (APCC), Busan, Korea.

He has 24 peer reviewed publications in impact factor journals which cover variety of topics ranging from climate modelling, future projections of climate, extreme events and impact assessment to climate change and health. These publications provide important information to policy makers and stakeholders in Pakistan to formulate science guided policies and plans to minimize the future risks associated with changing climate.

Also, he is leading a regional research project funded by Asia Pacific Network on Global Change Research (APN). The project aims to provide robust projections of climate extremes and adaptation plans over South Asia and involves collaborators from China, Nepal, Bangladesh, Italy, Korea and USA and involves the preparation of fine resolution climate data (5km) over study area of the project. Dr. Ali has also worked as a consultant in Climate Risk and Vulnerability Assessment (CRVA) project of Asian Development Bank which involved analysis of future extreme events over data scarce regions of Hindu-Kush sub-regions and the results of the research were published in IF journal.

Dr Shaukat has also been involved in multiple efforts to communicate scientific research on climate change to public and policy makers. In this regards, he has been writing news articles for leading English newspapers in Pakistan to communicate science to policy makers in simple and effective way.