Zeba Ali is currently working for Environment Canada as an Economist for the Regulatory and Economic Analysis Branch. She is involved in researching, assessing, and developing tools to provide strategic economic advise on federal regulations. Much of the work involves detailed assessment of specific departmental regulations, usually as part of a formal Regulatory Impact Analysis Statement (RIAS).

Zeba ALI has worked as deputy project coordinator with the Environmental Technology Program for Industry (ETPI), a project of National Environmental Consulting. Her work involves the financial analysis of environmental audits of industries, development of technical papers for ETPI partner organizations and management of the ETPI core team. By integrating the fields of economics and environment, she has broadened the scope of her work, which now ranges from feasibility studies to socio-economics studies of Pakistan's environmental problems.

Z. Ali completed her Masters in Environmental Studies Programme from York University in 2001. As part of the programme she also did an internship at the Environmental Accounts and Statistics Division at Statistics Canada.

Z. Ali also has a master's degree in economics from the University of Karachi (1989). She also completed a short-term course at Tufts University in environmental management and natural resource economics (1993), for which she studied methodologies for environmental economic evaluation of the mangrove ecosystem in the Indus Delta.