Mr Karamat Ali is Executive Director of the Pakistan Institute of Labor Education & Research (PILER), Pakistan. An eminent labour and development activist for the last four decades, Mr Ali is the founding member of PILER as well as various local and regional networks like Pakistan Peace Coalition, Pakistan-India People’s Forum for Peace and Democracy and South Asia Labour Forum. He has been a part of labour and peace movements in Pakistan and has played a key role in linking up these movements with regional and global counterparts.