Abdelali Oudrhiri worked as a linguistics professor specializing in lexicography at Mohamed Bin Abdullah University in Fes and Mohamed V University in Rabat (AKDAL). He became head of the World Islamic University in Niger (overseen by the OIC) from 1994 to 2005, and director of the Allal al-Fasi Institute in Rabat from 2006 to 2008. He holds a state doctorate in linguistics and pursued his postgraduate studies at Sorbonne, Mohamed Bin Abdullah University in Fes and Mohamed V University in Rabat.