His Excellency Mohamed bin Ahmed Al Obaidly

Business leadership and investment

With more than three decades of cross-sector business leadership, institutional engagement, and international commercial experience, His Excellency has built a formidable record of creating and developing enterprises, advancing major investment initiatives, establishing international business corridors, and connecting Qatar’s private sector with strategic opportunities across the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Europe, and the United States.

As the Founder and Group Chairman of Kingdom Investment Group and the Founder and Group Managing Director of OITC Group Al-Obaidly, His Excellency leads extensive and highly diversified business interests across investment and finance, infrastructure, engineering and contracting, fintech, artificial intelligence, digital banking, energy, oil and gas, real estate, transportation, logistics, education, healthcare, tourism, hospitality, food security, environmental development, and emerging technologies. His leadership combines the vision of an international investor with the practical experience of an industrial operator, enabling him to identify opportunities, structure partnerships, mobilize relationships, and translate ambitious ideas into commercially viable initiatives.

Qatar’s private sector and institutional leadership

His Excellency has played an influential role in the advancement of Qatar’s business, industrial, and private-sector interests. As a Board Member of the Qatar Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Secretary General of the Business Council, Chairman of the Innovation and Technology Committee, Chairman of the Food Security and Environmental Committee, and Chairman of the Committee for Reviewing Laws and Legislation Related to the Private Sector, he has contributed to the development of policies, initiatives, and institutional frameworks affecting businesses throughout Qatar.

Through these responsibilities, His Excellency has operated at the highest levels of commerce, industry, investment, and private-sector representation. He has worked closely with government institutions, ministries, business owners, investors, and industry leaders to address commercial challenges, encourage private-sector participation, strengthen Qatar’s investment environment, and advance national economic-development priorities. His work reflects a deep understanding of how government, industry, capital, technology, and entrepreneurship must be aligned to create sustainable and internationally competitive economic growth.

International cooperation and industrial experience

His Excellency’s chamber-of-commerce leadership and international engagement extend far beyond Qatar. He has held prominent board and leadership responsibilities involving Arab and international chambers of commerce, bilateral business councils, investment platforms, and private-sector organizations connecting Qatar with Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Kazakhstan, and other strategic markets. Through these roles, he has developed longstanding relationships with government representatives, investors, family offices, corporations, financial institutions, industrial groups, entrepreneurs, and influential business leaders across multiple continents.

His Excellency is recognized for his ability to build trusted relationships across cultures, industries, and jurisdictions. His extensive international network, diplomatic commercial approach, understanding of foreign markets, and experience navigating complex business environments have enabled him to establish meaningful connections between Qatar and major international centers of investment, industry, technology, and innovation. He brings to every initiative not only access and influence, but also sound commercial judgment, institutional credibility, and the ability to unite diverse stakeholders behind a shared strategic objective.

Throughout his career, His Excellency has led, supported, or facilitated initiatives involving infrastructure, ports and harbors, power generation, water desalination, engineering and construction, digital banking, financial technology, food security, transportation, real estate, tourism, healthcare, education, and international investment. His experience encompasses foreign direct investment, cross-border capital formation, public-private partnerships, sovereign and institutional relationships, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, regulatory engagement, and the creation of new commercial platforms. This breadth of experience makes him exceptionally qualified to lead initiatives that require industrial knowledge, international reach, institutional cooperation, and long-term economic vision.

Founding leadership of SEF Qatar

As Founding Chairman of Space Economic Forum Qatar, His Excellency brings precisely the vision, leadership, credibility, and international business strength required to advance its global mission.

The emerging Earth-Moon economy will not be built by the space sector alone. It will require the coordinated participation of governments, sovereign investors, financial institutions, infrastructure developers, advanced-technology companies, industrial corporations, universities, entrepreneurs, and established business families. His Excellency possesses the rare cross-sector experience and international convening power needed to bring these communities together.

Under his founding leadership, SEF Qatar is positioned to become far more than an international conference. It is being developed as an influential platform through which global decision-makers can form partnerships, mobilize investment, establish new ventures, advance technology transfer, expand industrial cooperation, and shape the commercial architecture of the Earth-Moon economy. His Excellency’s ability to connect strategic vision with practical execution will be central to ensuring that the Forum produces enduring commercial and institutional outcomes.

His Excellency’s leadership substantially strengthens SEF Qatar’s ability to engage sovereign institutions, governments, chambers of commerce, global corporations, investment groups, technology pioneers, and emerging space nations. His knowledge of Qatari industry and his standing within the country’s business community provide SEF Qatar with a powerful national foundation, while his international relationships give the organization the reach required to build a truly global platform headquartered in Doha.

He also brings a clear understanding of the importance of aligning international opportunity with tangible benefits for Qatar. Through SEF Qatar, his leadership can help create new pathways for Qatari businesses to enter space and aerospace supply chains, attract international investment and advanced technologies, establish strategic joint ventures, establish food security and agricultural sustainability programs, develop specialized workforce capabilities, and participate in industries that will define the coming decades. This directly supports Qatar’s continued economic diversification, technological advancement, industrial expansion, and emergence as an influential center for international business and innovation.

His Excellency brings to SEF Qatar far more than prestige. He brings proven entrepreneurial leadership, extensive industrial knowledge, international credibility, commercial judgment, institutional relationships, and a demonstrated ability to operate effectively across the public and private sectors. These capabilities are essential to transforming the Forum’s ambitions into partnerships, investments, enterprises, and lasting economic value.

As Founding Chairman of Space Economic Forum Qatar, His Excellency Mohamed bin Ahmed Al Obaidly represents the strength, sophistication, and global ambition of Qatar’s private sector. His leadership will be instrumental in establishing Doha as a principal international center for shaping the business, investment, industrial, and geopolitical dimensions of the Earth-Moon economy. Through his vision and influence, SEF Qatar is positioned not merely to participate in this emerging economic era, but to help convene its leaders, define its priorities, and shape its future.