Coordinator North Africa West Asia Flagship CRP Dryland systems. Ali is a livestock and rangeland senior consultant at ICARDA. His main fields of expertise are ruminant management and nutrition, feed resources, community-based participatory research and technology transfer. Prior joining ICARDA, he has led research teams on livestock-forage-rangeland over 30 years at INRA Tunisia and as a professor at Tunisian universities. He coordinated several regional and international research projects in collaboration with IFAD, OFPRI, ACIAR, FAO and CGIAR. He is author/co-author of 160 peer-reviewed publications, book chapters and conference papers.