The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the Middle East Initiative are proud to host a Directors’ Lunch with Ambassador Nasser Bin Hamad M. Al-Khalifa, Qatar Ambassador to the U.S. on Friday, April 13, in the Belfer Center Library (L369).
Nasser Bin Hamad M. Al-Khalifa became ambassador of Qatar to the United States in October of 2005. Previously Ambassador Al-Khalifa served as ambassador to the United Kingdom. He has also served as Qatar’s permanent representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons from 2000-2005.
Ambassador Al-Khalifa served as ambassador at-large at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1998 to 2000, Qatar’s permanent representative to the United Nations in New York, as ambassador to Korea (1992-93) and Italy (1994-96) and as nonresident ambassador to Argentina, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Canada, Colombia, Cuba, Denmark, Iceland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway and Malta. From 1995 to 1997, he headed the Qatari Delegation to Canada and Norway.
Ambassador Al-Khalifa holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Western Michigan University, a master’s degree in international public policy from Johns Hopkins University and a law degree from the City University in the United Kingdom. He has been a fellow at Princeton University and a visiting fellow at the Centre for Islamic Studies in Oxford, as well as a candidate for a doctorate in international affairs from the London School of Economics.
