Khalifa Jassim Al-Kuwari ( ar, خليفة جاسم الكواري; born on 10 January 1977) is a Qatari accountant and banker. He has held executive positions in

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and

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. He holds a master's degree in accounting from

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. He was the

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and its subsidiary, Qatar Holding, until December 2012.

Career

In 2010, he was appointed to the board of directors of Songbird Estates. He stepped down in September 2014 and was replaced by

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. He was appointed as chairman of Islamic Bank Britain, later to be known as Al Rayan Bank, in 2011. The same year, he was appointed as a member of

's supervisory board. He resigned from the board in April 2013. Al-Kuwari is the general manager of the

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(QVN). In April 2015, he signed an agreement with

Saeb Erekat Saeb Muhammad Salih Erekat ( ar, صائب محمد صالح عريقات ''Ṣāʼib ʻUrayqāt''; also ''ʻRēqāt, Erikat, Erakat, Arekat''; 28 April 195510 November 2020) was a Palestinian politician and diplomat who was the secretary genera ...

to consolidate a $100 million QVN-financed loan to the

Palestinian Authority The Palestinian National Authority (PA or PNA; ar, السلطة الوطنية الفلسطينية '), commonly known as the Palestinian Authority and officially the State of Palestine,

References

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