Ali has over 15 years of experience in the private banking industry and focuses on values-based planning with a concentration in family businesses. In her role, Ali provides clients with investment, philanthropic, trust and estate advice to help navigate life transitions, including retirement, intergenerational wealth transfer and the succession of privately held companies. As a leader of the BBH Center for Family Business, Next Generation Experience and Center for Women & Wealth, she advises families on how to link succession plans to real life, including facilitating open, productive conversations about wealth, family and values to help ensure each unique plan is resilient and durable.
Prior to joining Brown Brothers, Ali was in private legal practice at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in New York City, specializing in trust and estate planning – developing and implementing strategies to achieve preservation and transmission of family wealth while minimizing transfer taxes.

Ali is a cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College and received her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, where she was a Dillard Fellow. She teaches the income taxation of trusts at the NYU Summer Tax Institute and is a 21/64 Certified Advisor specializing in family meeting facilitation. Ali is a frequent contributor to print and broadcast media, appearing in The Wall Street Journal, Kiplinger, Bloomberg, Business Insider, CNBC and the WSJ Secrets of Wealthy Women podcast. Ali lives in Manhattan with her husband, Scott and their three children