News: Qatar National Convention Centre set to host one of the largest conferences in the world

Doha, 8 November: With less than three weeks to go, the Qatar National Convention Centre (QNCC) has intensified its preparations to take centre stage and host Qatar’s largest conference to date – the United Nations’ Framework Convention on Climate Change 2012 (COP18/CMP8). The event which will take place from 26 November to 7 December is expected [...]

News: Entrepreneurs Organisation Qatar, appoints new president

Doha, 7 November: The Entrepreneurs Organisation (EO) Qatar chapter has announced the appointment of Mohamed Jaidah as President to EO Qatar for the 2012-2013 year, under the international Entrepreneurs Organisation. The organisation brings together some of the most influential and socially aware entrepreneurs in Qatar, in an attempt to help their members learn and grow [...]

Interview: Khalid Al Jaber, A serial entrepreneur

As CEO of Innovation Group, Khalid Al Jaber is a 35-year-old Qatari who is involved in all four of his company’s divisions, in the information technology sector and filmmaking, as well model building for the construction, real estate and oil and gas industries, through the German-based Innovation GmbH. Al Jaber is also executive director of [...]

Virtualising Qatar’s Businesses

The virtualisation of business organisations and the challenges in the networking and data management industry TheEDGE spoke exclusively with Nimer Ghazal, country manager for Brocade Qatar about the virtualisation of business functions, the move to cloud based applications and the challenges for companies in managing their data in a time of information explosion. What is [...]

Qatar’s atomic future

Nuclear energy analyst provides evidence of Qatar’s atomic power ambitions by Jamie Stewart Evidence has emerged that the Qatar Ministry of Energy and Industry is moving forwards with its programme to develop nuclear power in the country. State-owned energy giant Qatar Petroleum is seeking to employ a senior nuclear energy analyst, with responsibilities including playing [...]

Is Management Ideology the last bastion of American hegemony?

Here is a tricky question: How many living management gurus did not learn their trade in North America? The London Business Schoolís Julian Birkinshaw, who has presented this condundrum to many of his esteemed international colleagues, writes that it is not easy to come up with a list of top experts who are not American, [...]

News: New NGO launched to enhance research and sustainability in Qatar

Doha, 25 October: As part of Qatar’s investment and long-term commitment to the environment, the Qatar Sustainability Network (QSN) was officially launched in Doha yesterday. At the launch, Nadia Aboul Hosn interim board member at QSN outlined the mandate as a network to cultivate a culture of research, science, and sustainability through active engagement of civil [...]

Vol 4 Issue 10 Oct 2012

This month’s cover story in about one of Qatar’s more contentious investments, The Shard, a skyscraper that sits on the bank of the river Thames in central London. We take a look at the differing sentiments it has generated from Londoners and Qatar’s role in the project. In this issue we also look at the [...]


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Virtualising Qatar’s Businesses

The virtualisation of business organisations and the challenges in the networking and data management industry TheEDGE spoke exclusively with Nimer Ghazal, country manager for Brocade Qatar about the virtualisation of business functions, the move to cloud based applications and the challenges for companies in managing their data in a time of information explosion. What is [...]

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CEO of Qatar Exchange discusses the bourse

CEO of Qatar Exchange discusses their recent innovations and how expatriates can invest in the bourse Formerly known as the Doha Securities Market, Qatarís Doha-based stock exchange, the Qatar Exchange (QE), was formed in 2009, when an agreement was signed between Qatar Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Euronext to develop the existing [...]

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Tower Technology – Qatar’s award winning new high rise

  In this exclusive, we interview the tower’s manager Hassan Al Dehaimi to discuss attributes of the Doha High Rise Office Building, which was recently voted as one of the best new tall buildings in the world. Unique architectural design, technology, green considerations and safety standards in the new ‘Doha High Rise Office Building’ Doha has seen [...]

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New Dean of Georgetown University Qatar

Previously professor of international relations and Middle East politics at Exeter University in the United Kingdom, Gerd Nonneman is now the new Dean of Georgetown School of Foreign Service in Qatar. He discussed with TheEDGE his vision and the calibre of Georgetwon graduates that will be entering the workforce soon. As the new dean of [...]

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The world’s ‘most powerful woman in banking’

Recently voted the most powerful woman in banking by American Banker, Karen B. Peetz is a vice chairman with responsibility for the financial markets and treasury services group within BNY Mellon, which is the corporate brand of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation. TheEDGE spoke to Karen B. Peetz, who visited Doha recently, alongside [...]

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Markab Study: QFCA’s Yousuf Al Jaida on PPPs

In February Dubai-based Markab Advisory released a new research study entitled Public Private Partnerships: A Vehicle of Excellence for the Next Wave of Infrastructure Development in the GCC. The study, sponsored by the Qatar Financial Centre Authority (QFC Authority) and the State of Qatar Ministry of Business and Trade (MoBT) concludes that Public Private Partnerships [...]

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The CEO of Malomatia talks about IT Consultancy

Malomatia is a rare breed of company in the international information technology (IT) marketplace and one that puts the national interest and investment in the future ahead of pure profits. Rachel Morris meets Yousef Al Naama of the Qatar-based IT services consultancy company that looks at the big picture. Malomatia chief executive officer (CEO) Yousef [...]

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PII Pipeline Solutions MD Michael Bellamy on Qatar

PII Pipeline Solutions is a 50/50 joint venture formed in May 2010 between GE Oil and Gas and Qatar Petroleum’s (QP) Al Shaheen Holding. PII provides the hydrocarbon industry with tools to inspect pipelines and assess whether they need to be repaired or replaced. TheEDGE spoke with Michael Bellamy, managing director of PII about this [...]

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David Jones CCO Aon Hewitt Middle East Talks HR

Through 2011, the Dubai-based branch of global human resources consultants Aon Hewitt conducted Qudurat, a massive, first-of-its-kind survey of the Middle East workplace and labour market, involving 4600 employees across forty countries in five Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. The subsequent report revealed interesting data highly useful to the human resources sector in region that [...]

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Luxury Retail at The Pearl-Qatar with Kirk Martin

As The Pearl-Qatar gears up to become an iconic destination for visitors to the country, Megan Masterson spoke with executive vice-president of Fashion and Retail Leasing, Kirk Martin, about the road that led him to this tiny Gulf country, and what we can expect from this monumental project in the years ahead. When Kirk Martin’s [...]

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