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H.E DR. Ali Bin Fetais Al Marri

  • Current Roles: Member of the Shura Council, Qatar (2021-2025).
  • Chairman of the Committee on Internal and External Relations.
  • Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Lusail University.
  • Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption Center (ROLACC).
  • Member of the Board of Trustees of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR).
  • Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption (GOPAC).

Previous professional experience:

  • Attorney General of the State of Qatar (with the rank of Minister) (2002-2021).
  • President of the International Association of Anti-Corruption Authorities (IAACA) (2021-2015).
  • Head of the Legal Department of the Amiri Diwan (with the rank of Undersecretary of the Ministry) (since October 1998).
  • Legal expert in the Amiri Diwan and Assistant Secretary-General of the Council of Ministers participating in its weekly assembly (June 1997 – October 1998).
  • Legal expert at the Office of His Highness the Amir of the State of Qatar (June 1997 – October 1998).
  • Legal researcher in the Office of His Highness the Amir of the State of Qatar (1996-1997).
  • Teaching secondment at Qatar University (from 1997 to 2000).

Membership in National Committees and Distinguished International Bodies:

  • Member and Rapporteur of the Qatari Committee on the Creation of the Constitution of the State of Qatar.
  • Member of the United Nations International Law Commission (since 2002).
  • Chairman of the Qatari Committee for the Approval of Contracts and International Agreements concluded with the State of Qatar.
  • Chairman of the National and International Legal Committees in which the State of Qatar participates.
  • Arbitrator, Certified Expert, Commercial Arbitration Centre of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Bahrain (since November 1997).
  • Member of the Border Demarcation Committee between the State of Qatar and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
  • Lawyer pleading before the International Court of Justice in the case of Qatar v. Bahrain.
  • Member of the Franco-Qatari Committee for Military Cooperation.
  • Member of the U.S-Qatari Committee for Military Cooperation.
  • Member of the Board of Directors of Qatar Telecommunications Company (1995-2002).
  • Chairman of the Committee for the Preparation of the Qatari Public Prosecution Law System and its Competencies.
  • Chairman of the committee for the preparation of the “Supreme Judicial Council” Law and the preparation of the Law on the Independence of the Judiciary.
  • President of the Franco-Qatari Regional Conference on Justice, Doha (October 2004).
  • Member of the International Association of Prosecutors since 2006.
  • Vice-President of the World Summit of Attorneys General, Chief Prosecutors, and Prosecutors, Guatemala-Antigua (2004-2005).
  • Chair of the 2nd World Summit of Attorneys General, Chief Prosecutors, and Prosecutors, Doha, Qatar (2005-2007).
  • President of the Franco-Arab Congress of Justice (April 2008).
  • Member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Anti-Corruption Authorities (since 2010).
  • United Nations Special Counsel on Asset Recovery (2014-2016).
  • United Nations Special Advocate for the Prevention of Corruption (2016-2024).
  • Chairman of the Arab Forum for Asset Recovery (Doha 2011).
  • Chairman of the Qatar Law Forum (Doha 2017).
  • PhD in International Law. Sorbonne University, France.
  • Thesis title, ” The Borders of the Arabian Peninsula”, (1997).
  • Medal of the Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur of the French Republic.
  • Ordre des Legion d’Honneur, Rank of Officer of the French Republic from President Nicolas Sarkozy.
  • The Order of the Republic of Tunisia for a senior officer (2013) from President Moncef Marzouki.
  • The Order of Philip VI Medal of the King of Spain, May 2018.
  • The Senegalese Lion of Africa Medal with the rank of Commander, from Senegalese President Macky Sall.
  • The Commander’s Medal from the King of Malaysia (September 2019) from Sultan Abdullah Ahmad Shah.
  • Ordre des Palmes Académiques of the French Republic.
  • The Medal of Hamad bin Khalifa Necklace from the State of Qatar, from His Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Amir of the State of Qatar.
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The board of trustee

H.E DR. Ali Bin Fetais Al Marri

Position :

Chairman

Country :

Qatar

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