Hiba Ali is a PhD Candidate at Adelaide University and a Graduate Research Student Representative. Hiba holds an LLM from George Washington University Law School, where she studied Government Procurement Law and AI Law and Policy, with expertise in public procurement law and sustainable governance solutions for large-scale infrastructure and technology networks navigating growing energy and water demands and carbon obligations.
 
Hiba is a GW Law Merit Scholar and has over 8 years of cross-jurisdictional legal experience in the United States, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan. Her focus is on energy sector regulation, infrastructure procurement and technology governance. She has been invited to several international conferences, including Public Procurement Global Revolution Conference 2024, the Sapiens Network Conference on Climate Policy and the Copenhagen Public Procurement and Contracts Conference 2026, and has been a speaker to the Environmental Law Centre, University of Cologne, on factors influencing environmental legislation.
 
Hiba has also actively participated at Jessup Moot Court Competitions in the United States as a Judge at the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition in Louisiana, US, the world's largest moot court competition, where she evaluated the students' advocacy and legal reasoning.