Misplaced Pages

Hamad bin Jabor Al Thani

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
This article is about a director general in GSDP as well as chairman in QSA. For Prime Minister of Qatar, see Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani.
This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous.
Find sources: "Hamad bin Jabor Al Thani" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (November 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
Hamad Bin Jabor Bin Jassim Al Thani
NationalityQatari
Occupation(s)Director General of the GSDP and Chairman of QSA

Sheikh Hamad bin Jabor bin Jassim bin Jabor bin Muhammed Al Thani was appointed by the previous Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, as the Director General of the General Secretariat for Development Planning (GSDP) and Chairman of Qatar Statistics Authority (QSA) in 2007.

Hamad is in charge of day-to-day management at GSDP, whose Secretary General is Ibrahim Ibrahim. played a role in the Knowledge-based economy (KBE) and Small and medium enterprises (SME) projects.

Hamad is a member of the board of directors of Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), Qatar Chemical Company (Q-Chem), Qatar Electricity and Water Company (QEWC), Qatar National Bank (QNB), and IctQATAR, and Qatar Finance. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Qatar University, Chairman of the Permanent Population Committee (PPC), a member of the Governing Board for UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Ultimate Resource – Qatar Finance and a Deputy Chairman of the AIDS Control Committee. Currently he is the Chair of ISI Al-Khawarezmi Committee.

He was involved in the development of Qatar National Vision 2030, the National Development Strategy 2011-2016, and the creation of the Qatar Statistics Authority. He also supervised the preparation of the National Strategy for the Development of Statistics, directed the 2010 National Census, and established the National Population Policy and the Qatar Information Exchange (QALAM).

Hamad was for four years the Secretary General of the Planning Council, planned Qatar’s social and economic policies.

Previously, he had worked in Qatar Petroleum (QP) for fifteen years, occupying various posts including the position of Human Resource Manager, and later on the Director of Administration. He is known for having transformed Qatar Petroleum to become a Learning and performance-based corporation, and created the well-known Oil & Gas Industry Strategic Qatarisation Plan.

Sheikh Hamad received a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Metropolitan State College in the United States.

He has three sons, Jabor, Jassim and Fahad.

Sources

External links


Stub icon

This Qatari biographical article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Stub icon

This biography of a member of a Middle Eastern royal house is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: