Ali Bhatti grew up in the city of Lahore in Pakistan in the 1980s and moved to the United Kingdom in early 2000s, where he obtained a Master's degree in Finance and started working in the same field. Later in the early 2010s, he obtained his second Masters in International Politics and Economics from Kingston University in London and started on a new career path as an ESOL teacher. After getting a teaching certification from Cambridge, he moved to Kuwait in late 2014 to work as an ESL Instructor and Examiner, and since then he has been living between England and Kuwait.