His Excellency Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim Bin Jabr Al-Thani
First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs
Curriculum Vitae :
Date of Birth: - 1959.
Political Career: - 1982-1989, Director of the Office of the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Agriculture. - 18-7-1989, appointed Minister of Municipal Affairs and Agriculture. - 14-5-1990, appointed Deputy Minister of Electricity and Water for two years alongside with his post as Minister of Municipal Affairs and Agriculture. - Supervised several successful projects and developed the agricultural sector. - Held the following posts in addition to his position as Minister of Municipal Affairs and Agriculture and Deputy Minister of Electricity and Water: - Chairman of Qatar Electricity and Water Company. - President of the Central Municipal Council. - Director of the Special Emiri Projects Office. - Member of Qatar Petroleum Board of Directors. - Member of the Supreme Council for Planning. - 1-9-1992, appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs. - Kept his position as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the subsequent ministerial reshuffles in July 1995, October 1996 and January 1999. - On Sept 16, 2003, he was appointed as First Deputy Prime Minister while retaining his position as Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Other Key Positions: - Member of the Supreme Defence Council, which was established in 1996. - Head of Qatar's Permanent Committee for the Support of Al Quds, which was formed in 1998. - Member of the Permanent Constitution Committee formed in 1999. - Member of the Ruling Family Council established in 2000. - Member of the Supreme Council for the Investment of the Reserves of the State, which was established in 2000.
He is also chairman of Qatar Investment Authority - the body responsible for investing Qatar's substantial budget surplus.
Later, King HamadIbn Isa Al-Khalifa of Bahrain, Chairman of the Arab summit, said that Crown Prince Abdullah Ibn Abdul Aziz, Deputy Prime Minister and Commander of the National Guard was of the view that Arab leaders should get enough time to consider and study his proposed new Arab charter for reforming Arab conditions.
Crown Prince Abdullah Ibn Abdul Aziz, the Deputy Prime Minister and Commander of the National Guard and head of the Saudi delegation to the 15th Arab summit, received at his residence in Sharm Al-Sheikh Izzat Ibrahim Al-Doori, the Vice-president of the Iraqi Revolutionary Council and head of the Iraqi delegation to the summit.
Sheikh HamadIbn Isa, the King of Bahrain and the Chairman of the Arab summit gave directives for launching the activities of the committee stemming from the Arab Summit.
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