Ali Gilani (Past Speaker)

Ali is a senior talent and resourcing executive with over 25 years’ multi-national experience across executive search, in-house and consultancy based recruitment and Strategic Workforce Planning. Diverse global experience in leading and managing teams for both volume based as well as high impact specialist senior recruitment to board level in both developed and emerging markets. Ali has experience spanning defence, steel and mining, IT consulting and professional services in the roles of global head of resourcing, general HR, operational business management and talent & succession management. Ali developed ArcelorMittal’s Strategic Workforce Planning methodology as well as its roll out globally (for a company of over 260,000 permanent employees and 80,000 contractors with presence in 60 Countries).

He was also charged with the design, development and roll out of an in-house developed strategic workforce planning tool to be used across ArcelorMittal. Ali is now developing and rolling out strategic workforce planning at Babcock. In his current role as Talent and Resourcing Director at Babcock Ali is responsible for permanent & contingent recruitment, on-boarding, talent & succession management, strategic workforce planning, integrated business planning and STEM.