Programme

Speakers
HE Yousef Hussain Kamal,
Minister of Finance of the State
of Qatar
HE Yousef Kamal has been
Minister of Finance of the State
of Qatar since January 2002.
He became Acting Minister
of Economy and Commerce,
and Chairman of the Qatar
Financial Centre Authority, in
March 2006. He was Minister
of Finance, Economy and
Commerce from January 1998 until the Ministry of
Economy and Commerce was established
in 2002.
HE Yousef Kamal is Chairman of the Doha
Securities Market, Chairman of Ras Laffan
Liquefied Natural Gas, Deputy Chairman
of Qatar Petroleum, a Director of Qatar
Telecommunications, and a Director of Qatar
Central Bank.
He also heads several local, regional and Arab
committees and was Under-Secretary at the
Ministry of Finance, Economy and Commerce
from 1993-98, and Director of Financial Affairs
in the Ministry of Finance and Petroleum from
1988-93.
Stuart Pearce,
Chief Executive Officer and
Director General, Qatar
Financial Center Authority
Stuart Pearce has been Chief
Executive Officer and Director
General of the Qatar Financial
Centre Authority since August
2005. Previously he had a
long and successful career
in international banking and
financial services with HSBC
in the Middle East, North
America, Asia and Europe.
In 1992 he was appointed CEO of HSBC Private
Banking Europe and Middle East, and in 1997
he was appointed Chief Executive and Country
Manager of HSBC Japan. In 2001 Stuart Pearce
was appointed HSBC’s Head of Corporate
Banking in the UK, and in 2002 he took up the
new appointment of CEO of HSBC Investment
Management, which he held until his retirement
from HSBC in May 2005.