Ali Rached

Ali currently serves at the Front Office of INTERPOL’s Executive Director for Partnerships and Planning in a policy and strategic advisory capacity and has been an international civil servant at INTERPOL since 2011. From 2015 to 2018, Ali served as the main Policy Analyst of INTERPOL’s Counter-Terrorism Directorate, where he provided strategic analytical and advisory support to INTERPOL’s executive management on relevant matters; contributed to the drafting and implementation of the INTERPOL Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy; chaired the UN Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task-force’s Working Group on Critical Infrastructure Protection; negotiated cooperation agreements with key partner organizations; and represented INTERPOL at various international forums such as the Biological Weapons Convention, the UN Security Council Committee established pursuant to Resolution 1540 (2004), the G7’s Global partnership against the spread of WMD, and many others. Prior to this position, Ali was a founding member of INTERPOL’s Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosives (CBRNE) Terrorism Prevention Sub-Directorate, in the capacity of Intelligence Analyst Associate. Prior to joining INTERPOL, Ali held several research positions in France and Egypt-based think tanks, such as the Fondation pour la Recherche Strategic in Paris and the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs in Cairo, where his research and publications focused on WMD proliferation networks and disarmament.