Ali Choudhary is a Research Fellow at CERP. He is the Director of the Research Department at the State Bank of Pakistan- the central bank. He also leads the macroeconomic modeling effort at the central bank to facilitate monetary policy. Dr Ali is an Associate, at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics (LSE). He received his PhD and MSc in economics from Birkbeck College, University of London. He graduated from Kinston University in 1996 with a First Class honors degree in Economics with Politics and Languages with a distinction in spoken French and was also awarded the Jonathan Crompton Memorial Prize. He has lectured various courses at Birkbeck as a part-time teacher during his PhD. He has also served as a consultant to the European Commission and the World Bank before moving to the University of Surrey in 2001. Dr Ali’s research contributes to three areas of economics: Macroeconomics, Labour Economics (in particular Executive Compensation), and the Economics of Happiness. His current areas of research include frictions of formal and informal labour, product and credit markets, and economic growth.