Anwar Ali

Anwar Ali (born 1943, ), is a Pakistani physicist and a computer programmer, who served as the Chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) from 2006 until 2009. His scientific career is spent at the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission as a computational physicist and played a key scientific role his nation's secret nuclear deterrent program. Biography Early life Ali, an Indian native from Hoshiarpur, completed his undergraduate studies at the Government College University in Lahore and earned a BSc in physics. He participated in the physics master's program at Punjab University, where he earned a Master of Science (MSc) in the subject. He studied nuclear physics at the University of Birmingham, where he received his MSc.