"Being part of the community. QA each year organizes a variety of events bringing together students, faculty, staff and the Parent Teacher Association"

• Home
• About Qatar Academy
• Board of Governors

Board of Governors

GOVERNANCE

Qatar Academy is part of the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development. Chaired by Her Highness Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned, Qatar Foundation is governed by the Executive Board of Directors which serve as the governing authority that appoints the Board of Governors for Qatar Academy.

The Qatar Academy Board of Governors approves the budget for submission to Qatar Foundation and hires the Director of the School. The Board also develop the policies of Qatar Academy which provide guidance to the school's administration in areas of curriculum, personnel and student affairs.

The Board and the school's senior administrators meet monthly throughout the school year to deal with major management issues and to affirm its commitment to provide the highest possible standard of education to its students.

Board of Governors

Mr. Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi
Qatar Academy Board of Governors Chairman

Mr. Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi joined Qatar Petroleum (QP) in August 1986 as a student studying at the Pennsylvania State University where he later graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Petroleum & Natural Gas Engineering.

Immediately after graduation, he was assigned to the Reservoir & Field Development Department where he progressed through various petroleum engineering technical and supervisory positions and during which he managed the company's huge North Field development. He was promoted to Manager of Gas Development where he and his team played a key role in the rapid launch of many mega gas projects, contributing to Qatar's rapid rise as the Liquefied Natural Gas and Gas-to-Liquids capital of the world. He is currently the Director of the Oil & Gas Ventures Directorate where he continues to oversee all the gas development activities of Qatar Petroleum. Mr. Al-Kaabi also represents QP in several company boards and executive committees and reports directly to QP Chairman and Managing Director H. E. Abdullah bin Hamad Al-Attiyah, Qatar's Deputy Prime Minster and Minister of Energy & Industry.

He is happily married and blessed with four boys, three of whom have already begun their journey of lifelong learning as Qatar Academy students

Dr. Siham Yousef AlQaradawi

Dr. S. AlQaradawi is a career educator who has been a member of Qatar Academy's Board of Directors since 2005.

She received her undergraduate degree in Chemistry with High Honors from Qatar University and her Master of Science degree from Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt in 1987. She completed her PhD from University of Reading, United Kingdom in 1992 and upon returning to Doha began an impressive tenure with Qatar University. She began as an Assistant Professor of Organic Chemistry before becoming an Associate Professor and Chairperson of the Chemistry Department in 2004.

Not long after, she became Associate Dean for Student Affairs and in September 2005, started her five-year stint as Dean for the College of Arts & Sciences where she guided the College towards a number of key milestones. Among them: accreditation of the Biomedical Sciences Program from the National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences in April 2008, the Chemistry Program from the Canadian Society for Chemistry in February 2009 and establishing the International Affairs Program and the degree programs in Environmental Science (B. Sc.) and Social Work (BA).

Dr. Al-Qaradawi's personal achievements are many and varied. In 2000, she received a three-month working summer scholarship at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. She conducted research at the Institute of Pharmazie University of Hamburg in 2002. The following summer, she won the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (German Academic Exchange Service) scholarship to work with Prof. Dr. Detlef Bahnemann at the Institut fuer Technische Chemie, Universitaet Hannover in Germany. And in 2008, she was endowed by Qatar Shell as the 'Qatar Shell Professorial Chair in Sustainable Development' in Qatar University's Department of Social Sciences.

To date, Dr. AlQaradawi has written seventeen academic papers on synthetic organic chemistry and photochemistry and remains active in the academic community.


 

Dr. Daniel  C. Stoll

Currently serving as the Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Doha, Qatar (SFS-Qatar), Dr. Stoll received his undergraduate degree from St. Olaf College, his MA from Georgetown University and his PhD from University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) in the United States. He worked as a Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of State for a decade which brought him to Baghdad, Iraq and Johannesburg, South Africa in addition to several assignments in Washington D.C. Dr. Stoll was the Assistant Vice Provost for International Initiatives at UMKC prior to joining Georgetown University SFS-Qatar in June 2008.



Mr. Abdullah Al Khalifa

Mr. Al Khalifa has just received his bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Eastern Washington University when he joined Qatar National Bank (QNB) in 1996 as an Account Officer in the Marketing Department. A veteran of numerous courses and conferences here and abroad, he now serves as the General Manager - Corporate Banking for QNB and Chief Executive Officer of QNB Capital where his immense contribution has helped QNB expand its services and market share in the banking industry.



Ms. Reem Al-Mansoori

Ms. Al-Mansoori holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Qatar University and earned her Master's degree in Computational Intelligence from the University of Plymouth in United Kingdom.

Equipped with her knowledge in IT, she worked for Qatar General Corporation for Electricity and Water (Kahramaa) where she spearheaded the Business Intelligence Module and Data Warehouse that improved management decisions and managing and measuring organization performance. The Supreme Council of Information & Communication (ictQATAR) beckoned her with an opportunity to work as a Project Manager in the e-Education team. Here she managed several initiatives such as a School Learning Management System called Knowledge Net, a Teacher Learning Portal known as Global Gateway and establishing and/or promoting e-Literacy, K-12 Cyber Safety and ICT Community Centers. She is currently the e-Inclusion Manager where she works to develop a digital inclusive society across Qatar, creating and implementing state of the art e-skills and technology that is responsive to the needs of the country. The e-Inclusion program seeks to utilize ICT to help people overcome economic, social, educational, territorial or disability-related disadvantages and establish a truly inclusive ICT-based society.

Her wealth of experience has made her an expert in the fields of e-Literacy and ICT development. She has, among other things, worked on e-Inclusion strategy development, ICT capability building program planning and implementation, ICT curriculum development and computer safety lectures.

Mr. Ali Sultan Al-Sultan Alhajri

Mr. Ali Sultan Al-Sultan Alhajri has the distinction of becoming the first Qatari Certified Public Accountant in 1993. Quite an achievement for a man who grew up in a desert as a camel herdsman with his uncle until the age of sixteen. After teaching himself the basics of Arabic and English he started elementary school at the age of twenty.With hard work and determination, he graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor's degree in Accounting. He then worked as an Accounting Manager with Mobil Oil from 1996-1998 before taking an assignment with the Ministry of Defence as Auditor General.

He is now retired but has remained active as a Board Member of the Qatar Mice Development Institute (QMDI) and the Gulf Organization of Accounting and Auditing for the GCC States (GCCAAO) which he founded in 1998.