Washington, October 18 (QNA) – The Qatar Financial Centre (QFC), in cooperation with the Embassy of Qatar in the United States, the US-Qatar Business Council (USQBC), and the US Chamber of Commerce, held a business dinner in Washington, USA, on the sidelines of the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank 2022, to introduce the investment opportunities in Qatar.
During the working dinner, which was attended by executives from US companies in a number of sectors, QFC highlighted the abundant investment opportunities in Qatar, its flexible economy, its efforts to diversify its economy, favorable government policies that support innovation, and the establishment of long-term partnerships.
QFC’s Deputy CEO and Chief Business Officer Sheikha Alanoud bint Hamad Al-Thani said that USA and Qatar share a long history of strategic partnership and have strengthened this relationship over the years with mutually beneficial collaborations, enhanced trade agreements, and active government to government engagements”.
She added: “This business dinner illustrates the QFCs commitment to building on these strong ties by facilitating access for US companies to explore the vast potential investment opportunities in Qatar, a country powered by rapid diversification and sustainable economic policies. We are eager to see new partnerships and businesses entering Qatar under the QFC platform”.
“2022 is another remarkable year for the Qatari-American business relationship. Qatari and American companies constantly establish new partnerships, explore new business sectors, and create and maintain thousands of high-paying jobs,” said Fahad Al Dosari, the Commercial Attache of the State of Qatar to the United States.
“US companies can benefit from our stable business environment and the unmatched financial and regulatory incentives offered by the Qatar Financial Centre, as well as the special economic zones Qatar has created to achieve the diversification goals set in the Qatar National Vision 2030,” he added.
US-Qatar Business Council (USQBC) chairman Scott Taylor stressed in his speech that Qatar is one of the most attractive investment destinations in the world, and certainly, it will be easy for American companies to expand their business to Qatar thanks to the reforms implemented to facilitate doing business, incentive measures and incentives, and the provision of appropriate infrastructure to establish and conduct business quickly and efficiently, and the Qatar Financial Center will certainly have a leading role in this.
“The US Chamber of Commerces US-Qatar Business Program is honoured to partner with the U.S.-Qatar Business Council to host Sheikha Alanoud bint Hamad Al-Thani, Deputy CEO and Chief Business Officer at QFC, for this dinner at our headquarters in Washington,” said Khush Choksy, Senior Vice President for Middle East Affairs, US Chamber of Commerce. “The US and Qatar have an incredibly strong relationship spanning fifty years, and the economic ties between our two countries only continue to grow with new opportunities for investment and partnership regularly arising. The QFC has played a key role in developing these opportunities by serving as a platform for US companies to enter the Qatari market, including one of the Co-Chairs of our Program Inventus Power, and we are grateful for their part in helping to strengthen the US-Qatar relationship.” (QNA)