Governments
Mohammed bin Ali Al Mannai
Minister of Communications and Information Technology
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Qatar · Qatar
Role in AI policy
Qatar's minister for communications and IT; the ministry published the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy for Qatar. Qatar News Agency reports that in July 2026, at the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva, he met heads of delegations and announced a Qatari initiative on global AI governance run by Hamad Bin Khalifa University, and that in October 2026 he set out a digital economy plan that includes AI infrastructure, a target of more than 50,000 digital and AI training opportunities by 2030, and incentives for government AI use cases.