Ali Mehdi is a Fellow at ICRIER, and has been associated with the institute since 2007. He established the Health Policy Initiative at ICRIER in 2014, and has been leading it since. He has more than 10 years of analytical and multidisciplinary research experience, focusing on a broad range of health and demographic issues. He has published a number of papers and book chapters on these themes, and will be coming out with two major books by leading international publishers by the end of 2016. He is also working towards a major India Health Report in 2017. Ali completed his Masters living in the footsteps of the Black Forest at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, and PhD at the highly cosmopolitan Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany with a full scholarship under the Excellence Initiative of the German government.