Board Members

Aziz was appointed Managing Director and Group Chief Executive Officer of Ooredoo Group in November 2020. He has been a Board member of Ooredoo Group since 2011. Previously, he served as Deputy Undersecretary for Budget, Treasury and Financial affairs at the Ministry of Finance. Prior to that, he was the Co-head of Mergers and Acquisitions at Qatar Investment Authority. He is also a Board Member at Accor SA since 2015. In March 2021, he was appointed as Board member of KATARA Hospitality and member of the Board of Trustees of Qatar Museums. In December 2021, he was appointed on the Board of Commissioners of Indosat. Aziz holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from ESLSCA University.

Sheikh Ali is the CEO of Ooredoo Qatar. He has many years of management experience and is well-versed in the tasks and responsibilities of executive leadership, whether in Ooredoo Qatar or the Ooredoo Group, since joining the company in 2013. Sheikh Ali holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law.

Ahmad Al Neama was appointed Group Regional Chief Executive Officer - North Africa & Asia in January 2022.

In this role he oversees the strategic evolution of six Operating Companies: Ooredoo Algeria, Ooredoo Tunisia, Ooredoo Palestine, Ooredoo Maldives, and Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison. His focus is to create synergies around digitalisation, business consolidation and partnerships to grow core business areas, and to drive top-line growth to maximise cost-efficiencies.
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Ahmad is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ooredoo Algeria, Ooredoo Tunisia, and Vice-Chairman of the board of Ooredoo Palestine, as well as Commissioner at Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison.
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Previous key roles include President Director & Chief Executive Officer at Indosat Ooredoo from May 2019 to December 2021, Group Chief Technology Officer at Ooredoo Group from July 2017 to May 2019 and Chief Sales & Services Officer at Ooredoo Qatar from June 2015 to July 2017.

Ahmad joined Ooredoo Qatar in 2004 and built his career taking on several roles and functions including Director of Demand and Project Management, and Senior Director of Radio Networks, bringing extensive experiences in telecoms and network engineering, as well as B2C and B2B/ICT sales and operations.

A BSc holder in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado at Denver, Ahmad has over the years received further qualifications from the HEC Leadership Academy, Qatar Leadership Center, Arab Leadership Academy and Cranfield University & IMD, as well as additional specializations in Digital Signal Processing, Advanced Electromagnetic Fields Control and Methods of Engineering among others from leading institutions.

Abdulla Ahmed Al-Zaman was appointed Group Chief Finance Officer in March 2021.
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Previously he was CFO at Ooredoo Qatar since January 2018, after joining the Group in 2013 and holding multiple senior roles including Directorship positions on key Ooredoo internationals operating companies.

He is responsible for facilitating organisational accountability and transparency, maintaining a long-term sustainable value for shareholders and other stakeholders.

Mr. Al-Zaman has over 18 years highly accomplished broad-based leadership experience, in Telecommunications, Transportation and Oil & Gas industries. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Finance & Business Administration from California, USA, and an EMBA from the University of Hull, UK.

Fatima Sultan Al Kuwari was appointed Group Chief Human Resources Officer in April 2021, and with the expansion of her department to include sustainability, she now serves as Group Chief Human Resources and Sustainability Officer. She was also appointed Chairperson of Ooredoo Maldives in December 2021.

She is an experienced telecommunications executive, with more than 19 years of experience in commercial, marketing, product development, digital transformation, vendor-relationship management and brand & communication. She is also the first woman in the history of Ooredoo Kuwait to be appointed as a Board member of the company.

Before taking-up her role as the Group’s CHRO, Fatima was Ooredoo Qatar’s Chief Consumer Officer. Previously, she was Ooredoo’s Acting Group Chief Commercial Officer (CCO).

In her current position, Fatima is leading the company’s strategic human resources management and transformation, and working on creating a more modern, efficient and agile way of work.

Fatima joined Ooredoo in 2006 and served in a number of senior roles, including Ooredoo Group’s Executive Director of Marketing and Ooredoo Qatar’s Director of Public Relations and CSR.

She holds a B.S. in Computer Science from University of Qatar, an Executive Masters in Leadership from Georgetown University, USA and an MBA (specialising in Marketing) from the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom.

René Werner was appointed Group Chief Strategy Officer in March 2021.

He has over 22 years of experience in the telecommunications and technology industries with a focus on corporate strategy, mergers & acquisitions, corporate finance, customer experience and customer service/retail operations and mobile internet/data.

Before joining Ooredoo, he was Senior Director – Global Customer Experience/Global Service Delivery – Europe & RoW at eBay Inc. Prior to that, he worked with Axiata, where he had several senior roles and spearheaded the turnaround of its home market operations as Chief Customer Service & Experience Officer with a radical digitalisation focus which won numerous international awards. René was as well having various senior roles at Deutsche Telekom Group with his last one being Senior Vice President Group Strategy (acting) at Deutsche Telekom Group after a career in management consulting.

He holds a Master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Massachusetts (USA) and a Master's degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe (K.I.T) in Germany.

Hilal Mohammed Al-Khulaifi was appointed Group Chief Legal, Regulatory & Governance Officer in March 2023.

Prior to joining Ooredoo, he held the position of Director of Legal Affairs at the Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MOCI).

Throughout his distinguished career, Al-Khulaifi has taken on several leadership roles, including Chairmanship of the Anti-Concealment Committee, the Tender and Auction Committee of the Supreme Council for Economic Affairs and Investment, the Health Insurance Law Drafting Committee, and the Chairman of Qatar Chamber Election Committee (2018). Additionally, he has served as Secretary of the Supreme Council for Economic Affairs and Investment.

Al-Khulaifi is an active member of various committees, including the establishment of the Court of Trade and Investment at the Supreme Council of the Judiciary, the Financial Sanctions Committee at the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (CRA), and the Permanent Residential Committee at the Ministry of Interior. Moreover, he has represented the State at the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL).

Currently, Al-Khulaifi is a member of the International Association of Legislation (ILA) and a certified arbitrator at the Qatar International Centre for Conciliation and Arbitration. He earned his Bachelor's degree in Law from Qatar University and a Master's in Law (LLM) from the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom.