Qatar Chamber marked 2025 with a dynamic agenda that strengthened global partnerships, advanced innovation, and empowered the private sector, underscoring its pivotal role in driving the country’s economic diversification and supporting the goals of Qatar National Vision 2030.
Throughout the year, the chamber’s leadership, headed by its chairman, Sheikh Khalifa bin Jassim al-Thani, emphasised the importance of aligning private sector growth with the 2030 vision. The chamber’s activities reflected a consistent focus on diversification, sustainability, and international outreach, ensuring that Qatari businesses remained competitive in an evolving global economy.
The year began with Qatar Chamber strengthening ties with Italy, Malaysia, and Oman, while highlighting strides in public-private partnerships. The chamber’s engagements underscored Qatar’s growing role in regional trade and investment co-operation.
At the Web Summit Qatar held in February, the chamber showcased Qatar’s commercial alliances, while hosting Portugal’s economy minister, João Rui Ferreira, as part of the southwestern European nation’s participation in the summit. The chamber also advanced ties with Saudi Arabia and India. These meetings reinforced Qatar’s position as a global trade hub, noted Sheikh Khalifa.
The chamber unveiled its 2025-2030 strategy in March, aiming to create the Arab private sector’s largest economic marketing platform. Participation in the Mekka Halal Forum highlighted diversification and regional integration, while the establishment of a new Qatar-Sudan economic entity, the AWJ Investment and Development, aims to boost private sector investments between both countries in sectors like tech, food security, industry, and logistics.
Qatar continued to strengthen its position as a global investment hub in April, deepening ties with Indonesia and signing a memorandum of understanding to expand bilateral co-operation. In May, the chamber engaged in high-level meetings with Malaysia, GCC partners, and Hong Kong, while hosting the Qatar Trade and Treasury Transformation Summit. The events placed the spotlight on innovation, intra-GCC trade, and expanding international partnerships.
The chamber’s general assembly held in June reaffirmed its role as a key driver of the national economy, Sheikh Khalifa emphasised. In the same month, participation in the St Petersburg International Economic Forum and the International Labour Conference in Geneva highlighted Qatar’s global outreach and commitment to workers’ rights.
Qatar Chamber participated in the Arab-Turkish Economic Forum in Izmir in July, strengthening ties with Turkiye, while the Qatar Association for Freight Forwarding and Logistics, led by its chairman, Qatar Chamber board member Ali bin Abdul Latif al-Misnad, examined the challenges facing the logistics sector.
August was highlighted by the chamber’s training and youth empowerment initiative with the conclusion of the ISO26000 CSR programme and the Summer Innovation Camp, fostering skills in social responsibility and entrepreneurship.
The chamber participated in the Public-Private Sector Dialogue Forum in September, and supported the Arabian Women Exhibition, and highlighted the growth in Qatar’s tourism sector, where Qatar Chamber board member Nasser bin Sulaiman al-Haider highlighted that hotel occupancy here reached 71% in the first half of 2025 during a meeting with an Austrian business delegation headed by Anni Lichtenegger, the director of the Travel Trade and Marketing Department at the Austrian National Tourism Authority.
October was a busy month for the chamber, which hosted the Islamic Finance Conference. The chamber also participated in the Government Procurement and Contracting Conference and Exhibition ‘Moushtarayat’. It also invited Indian businesses to deepen ties during the ‘Qatar-India Joint Business Council’ meeting held in Doha.
The chamber hosted the ESG Qatar 2025 conference in November. It also formed a sub-committee for travel and tourism agencies, and highlighted Qatar’s advancement in quantum computing when it hosted a seminar on the launch of the Chief Quantum Computing Officer Programme.
The year closed with a focus on industrial exports, digital transformation, and regional integration. The chamber partnered with Qatar Development Bank (QDB) to support manufacturers, and announced its official sponsorship of the first ‘International Exhibition on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Technologies 26’ (ROBOTECH 26), scheduled to take place in Doha from October 27-29, 2026.