FORA.tv Speaker - Ali Ahsan

Ali Ahsan is an Associate Officer and Speechwriter in the Office of the Secretary‐General of the United Nations. He has served as a speechwriter to Secretaries‐General Kofi Annan and Ban Ki‐moon. Previously, Mr. Ahsan worked as a corporate attorney with the New York law firm of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton. His father, Aitzaz Ahsan, is the detained President of the Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan. Mr. Ahsan was graduated from Harvard College with an AB in Economics and earned a JD from Yale Law School.