Syed Sardar Ali Shah is a Pakistani politician who served as the Provincial Minister of Sindh for Education, Culture, Tourism, and Antiquities and Archives.

Previously, he served as Provincial Minister of Sindh for Culture, Tourism and Antiquities, and Archives between August 2016 - May 2018 and from Aug 2018- Aug 2023 tenure as Minister for Education and Literacy Department along the previous portfolio for Culture and Tourism.

Besides being a politician, he has very diversified profile which includes a very well known livestock farmer and also known for his pen work as renowned poet and columnist, and has great insight on contemporary affairs.

[7] He was re-elected to the Provincial Assembly of Sindh as a candidate of PPP from Constituency PS-51 (Umerkot-I) with a marginal victory in 2018 Pakistani general election.

[11] During his second tenure he led the biggest ever recruitment campaign of over 55000 combined number of Junior Elementary School Teachers (JEST) and Primary School Teachers (PST) in Pakistan's history and that was done purely on merit through an aptitude qualifying test conducted by highly reputed third party institute IBA Sukkur.