Asif Bin Ali is a documentary maker and journalist turned academic, working as a lecturer at North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He has received an MA in Journalism, Media and Globalization jointly awarded by the Swansea University, the UK; Aarhus University and Danish School of Media and Journalism, Denmark. He has also received an MA in Sociology from South Asian University, New Delhi, India. Asif is the recipient of the Erasmus Mundus Scholarship awarded by the European Union and the SAARC India Silver Jubilee Scholarships awarded by the Government of India. He has edited two books and six journal articles, and book chapters. Asif is a regular columnist and published more than fifty opinion articles and twenty interviews in newspapers such as The Daily Star and The Daily Observer.

His recent edited book is The Emergence of Bangladesh (Palgrave:2022), and his documentary is The Concert for Bangladesh: Music to Introduce Bangladesh to the World (2022).

He is a member editor of the prominent international public sociology journal, the Global Dialogue.