Ahmed Al-Hammadi is the Director General of the General Retirement and Social Insurance Authority in Qatar. Prior to that he was the QIA’s Chief Investment Officer for Europe and lead the fund’s sustainability approach. He served as the Head of Active Investments overseeing direct and fund investments from 2015 to 2020 and served in other roles at QIA from 2010 to 2014.

He is the chairman of the United Development Company and chairman of Qatar Cool and vice-chairman of Qatar Electricity and Water Co. He also is a board member of Heathrow Airport, SoFi, Masraf Alrayan, Industries Qatar, Ooredoo, Borsa Istanbul and Qatar Exchange.

From 2008 to 2010, he served as vice-president, asset management, EFG-Hermes Qatar, where he oversaw the asset management business in Qatar. Prior to that, he was an associate with Booz Allen Hamilton and worked on the restructuring and strategy recommendation for several financial service firms in the Middle East and was a financial reporting analyst from 2003 to 2005.

Al-Hammadi graduated with a BSc in economics, finance and accounting from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, USA, and an MBA from Harvard Business School in Boston, USA.