Ali Khawar

Ali Khawar had a distinguished career at the US Department of Labor that spanned four Democratic and Republican Presidential Administrations. During the Biden Administration, he was the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary and Acting Assistant Secretary of the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), the agency responsible for overseeing the approximately four million retirement, health, and other job-based benefit plans that serve America’s workers, retirees, and their families. In that role, he led the agency’s policy and regulatory work, interagency collaborations, international engagements, and played a key role in strategic and organizational management issues. Ali had several different positions over his government career, including as an EBSA Investigator, EBSA’s Chief of Staff, and a Counselor to the Secretary of Labor. He was also a Bureau Member for the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Working Party on Private Pensions and the Vice President of the International Organization of Pension Supervisors. In addition to being a frequent public speaker, Ali has played a role in every major retirement, health, and other ERISA benefits-related rule or legislation of the last fifteen-plus years. More recently, Ali is the founder of FCP, LLC, a company that offers strategic and benefits-related consulting, and a Non-Resident Scholar at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy.