Ali Asrar Hossain Aga

Ali A. Aga has over 38 years of multi industry experience in a wide range of management positions in General Management, Marketing, Human Resource Management, Corporate Affairs, Operations and Supply Chain Management in ICI Pakistan as well as German company Hoechst and other national Companies.

He is currently the Managing partner Middle East – South Asia & Chief Executive Pakistan for Ward Howell International, a global Leadership & Management consulting company. Prior to his involvement with Ward Howell in 2014, he was working with Pakistan’s leading company ICI where he worked for almost 25 years in various senior positions. He was appointed the Chief Executive of ICI Pakistan & Chairman of ICI Pakistan Power Gen Limited during the transition period of ICI Pakistan’s ownership from Akzo Nobel Netherlands to the YB Group in Pakistan in 2013. He also held the position of a Director on the Board of ICI Pakistan and worked as Vice President & Managing Director of ICI’s flagship Soda Ash Business from 2008 to 2014. He has also served as General Manager Human Resource for the ICI Group in Pakistan from 2004 to 2008 and looked after HR for the ICI group in Pakistan and Middle East, and was also responsible for leadership development programs for the Regional & Industrial Business of ICI plc globally.

Ali Aga has also served as a Director on the Boards of Pakistan PTA Ltd, Akzo Nobel Pakistan Limited, ICI Power Gen Ltd, and Pakistan Society for Training & Development. He is a Certified Director and Accredited Trainer on Corporate Governance by IFC and Pakistan Institute of Corporate Governance (PICG), and a visiting Faculty for PICG’s Director’s training program.

He is an Independent Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee and member of HR & Remuneration Committee of the Board of Descon Oxychem Ltd., and has served as Independent Director on the Boards of Public Sector Companies STEDEC Technology Commercialization Corporation of Pakistan, Inland Water Transport Company of Pakistan and Engineering Development Board. He is also involved in volunteer work in the field of management development and has served as the Vice Chairman of the Lahore Chapter of Management Association of Pakistan and a Council member of the Lahore Chapter of Marketing Association of Pakistan.

Ali Aga holds an MBA degree from Drexel University U.S.A and a BSc. (Engg.) in Chemical Engineering from the University of Punjab. He has attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School and has been a guest speaker at various local and international conferences and seminars.