12 March 2014
Fahad
Bin Mohammed Al-Attiya, Executive Chairman, Qatar National Food Security
Program
Following his schooling in Qatar, Mr Al-Attiya joined the Qatar Armed Forces as an officer cadet at which time he was accepted to and educated at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, in the UK. After Sandhurst he served with the elite Grenadier Guards in the UK and following that with the Special Forces in Qatar.
In 2007 Mr Al-Attiya joined the office of the Heir Apparent at the Emiri Diwan as legal counsel, a position he still holds. He is also on the Legislation Council of Qatar.
In November 2008 the Heir Apparent directed Mr Al-Attiya to chair and lead the Qatar National Food Security Programme, a cooperative effort virtually unprecedented in Qatar's history. Under Mr Al-Attiya's leadership, the QNFSP is developing a Master Plan which upon implementation, will become a model for sustainable, environmentally friendly agriculture in arid regions, and represent a unique challenge to the popular conceptions of Food Security being achieved in dry land countries.
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