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Ali Ghulam Al-Ansari; a progressive Iraqi businessman, born in 1982 and raised in Baghdad, he has been a resident in London since 2018 with his wife and kids. He is the youngest among his siblings, with one brother and one sister. His father lives in Iraq, while he lost his mother due to health condition. The family business started with the founding father- Mohammad; who came from a low-income family, he was ambitious. He kicked-off his journey opening a bakery in the 60s in Habaniya district. Then as he spotted the potential in this business, he got into flour transportation, and within 10 years, he became the owner of the most extensive fleet for flour transportation across Iraq. Following his successful endeavors, in mid-70's; he moved on with opening his first flour factory. And in the '80s, the founding father created a sustaining business network and lifted his family unto upper-class family. As Ali was growing; he was passionately and carefully observing his father, impressed by the way he runs the business, closes deals and manages the fluctuation of flour prices to keep the boat floating. At the age of 15 (In the '90s), Ali decided to drop school altogether and join his father workforce, despite of the mother's resistance; but she came around when she saw how Ali was persistent. By that time, the business included multiple flour factories and a chocolate factory (Asia Factory). 2009 marked a significant leap in Ali’s journey; he expanded his business horizontally towards financial sector, where he acquired shares in Middle East Bank. By Jan 2013, his share in the Bank reached up to 10.5%. On Feb 2013, he acquired 17% of the bank shares from an Iraqi investor (Sa'ad Asim Al-Janabi) he scaled his share to 27.5% of the total Bank. After a while, he decided to acquire more shares through the market. And by 2014; he ended up owning more than 51% of the Bank. In 2014, Ali continued his business development and kept working on diversifying his business, he built a big chicken farm in northern Iraq, and in 2023; he is establishing a giant poultry factory which is the first of its kind in Iraq; where all machines were imported from Netherlands to comply with the highest standards in the food industry. In 2016; Ali converted his money transfer companies, Al-Nada and Al-Muhaj, to banks as per CBI regulations during Ali Al-Alaq era. At the time; despite of the fact that there were many money-transfer companies, only few were accepted by CBI to be converted to banks, due to the strict due diligence applied on these companies. Amongst the recent successful acquisitions, is one of the giant steel factories in Iraq and the only one in Mid and south Iraq. The seller was one of the most well-known businessmen in Jordan and the owner of Arab Bank Jordan (Sabih Al-Masry) who he is considered a close friend. Throughout the above-mentioned journey, Ali realized that on one hand; some news channels are biased and manipulated; only to serve particular political and blackmailing agendas. While on the other hand; there are still news channels who are free and virtuous, surgically investigate upon publishing their content. And there will be fake news adopted and published on social media which can be easily created and negatively used by the corrupt. Ali has made a decision during his early beginnings that it became his own creed, to refrain from following any political biases no matter what or who. Also, he never dealt with any businesses in any sanctioned whether directly or indirectly. He stood his ground since this decision was driven by his core beliefs and by the way he was raised as a proud and patriotic Iraqi citizen who is working for the prosperity and wellbeing of his own country.