Sheikh Ahmed Al Thani

Head of Qatar Financial Information Unit (QFIU) since 2004. He began his professional career with the Supervision and Control Department at Qatar Central Bank from 1993 to 2004, to become the first Head of QFIU.

Sh. Ahmed has an extensive experience in financial information, ML and TF, in addition to regulatory and supervisory matters. Since QFIU establishment, he was the first to enhance QFIU protective role, along with detection and technical investigation roles, and has contributed in the launch of a number of projects of the control strategy such as the national risk assessment. He also helped in the legislative amendment to Law No. (4) of 2010 on AML/CFT and updated relevant Law No.(20) of 2019.