President of Ahlia University since 2015, Kingdom of Bahrain.

He served as Head of the Computer Science Department at the University of Bahrain and Director of the Community Service and Continuing Education Center at the same university. He also held a number of administrative positions at the University of Sunderland and the University of Greenwich in the United Kingdom. He later joined Ahlia University in 2009 and was appointed Dean of Student Affairs at the College of Information Technology.

Al-Ali also worked as a consultant for several IT companies in Bahrain, where he was responsible for recruiting employees and developing key systems for over 15 years. He also served as a consultant for the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs for two years, developing an IT and training strategy.

He has many publications in international peer-reviewed journals and international conferences.

He holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge-Based Systems from Aston University in 1989, a Master's degree in Computer Science from the same university in 1984, and a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Computing from Teesside University in the United Kingdom in 1983.