Aisha Jore Ali is a public policy enthusiast and doctoral candidate at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. 

Her research focuses on "rule-rigid behaviour" within bureaucracies, particularly among street-level bureaucrats in South Africa and Malaysia. Aisha's work particularly explores these dynamics within the social welfare and education sectors. Aisha has worked with the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, the University of The Witwatersrand’s Centre for Learning on Evaluation and Results (CLEAR), the World Bank, and various NGOs. Her roles have included programme and policy research and specialist monitoring and evaluation work across several African countries.

She holds a Master of Management in public and development management from the University of The Witwatersrand, South Africa, and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Makerere University, Uganda. Her professional and academic pursuits focus on bureaucrat behaviour in diverse social contexts, institutional reforms and strengthening the public sector to enhance service delivery outcomes.