21.05.2014 - Qatar’s former PM resumes role as financial dealmaker
After spending nearly a year out of the public spotlight, Qatar’s colorful former prime minister, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani, is garnering international attention with a series of blockbuster financial deals funded in part by his vast personal fortune. The businessman – who was also the country’s foreign minister and former CEO of the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) – played a major role in the government of former Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, but was sidelined when the nation’s previous ruler abdicated to his son last summer. Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim was replaced by Ahmad Al Sayed as head of QIA last July, a move the Financial Times at the time said “seals the demise” of HBJ.......................................Full Article: Source
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