He was Minister of Finance, Economy and Commerce from January 1998 until the Ministry of Economy and Commerce was established in 2002. He is Chairman of the Doha Securities Market, Chairman of Ras Laffan Liquefied Natural Gas, Deputy Chairman of Qatar Petroleum, a Director of Qatar Telecommunications, and a Director of Qatar Central Bank. He heads several local, regional and Arab committees. He was Under-Secretary at the Ministry of Finance, Economy and Commerce from 1993-98, and Director of Financial Affairs in the Ministry of Finance and Petroleum from 1988-93.

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Prior to his current appointment, Mr Pearce had a long and successful career in international banking and financial services with HSBC, which he joined in 1974. As an international executive for the Group he held a range of positions in the Middle East, Asia and the US, including Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the UAE and Hong Kong. His roles over this time included Chief Executive Officer of HSBC Private Banking Europe and Middle East in 1992, Chief Executive and Country Manager at HSBC Japan in 1997, Head of Corporate Banking in the UK in 2001, Chief Executive Officer of HSBC Investment Management in 2002 and Chairman of the International Bankers Association in Japan, as well as member of the board of HSBC Securities and the British Chamber of Commerce.

Mr Pearce retired from HSBC in May 2005 and joined the QFCA in July of that year.

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He served as Vice Chairman of Deutsche Bank, having previously been Chairman of Bankers Trust International and Senior Adviser at Morgan Stanley.

In addition to the Chairmanship of Lloyd’s, he is presently Chairman of General Dynamics UK Limited and a member of the Board of TOTAL SA, Haymarket Group and China Construction Bank.

He is an Alderman of the City of London and served as Lord Mayor for the year 1998/99. He received a knighthood in 1989 and became a life Peer in 1997.

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From 2004 to 2007 Dr. Schanz served as Chief Communication & Corporate Development Officer at Converium. From 1995 to 2004 he worked for Swiss Re, performing various senior management roles such as Chief Economist Asia-Pacific, based in Hong Kong, and Global Head of Communications Content and Strategic Issues Management.

In 2003 Dr. Schanz was appointed Research Fellow at the China Center for Insurance and Social Security Research at Beijing University. In 2005 he received the Geneva Association / International Insurance Society Research Award. Dr. Schanz is also a Member of the Board of Governors of the Asia-Pacific Risk and Insurance Association, Singapore.

His record of publications includes leading newspapers such as the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as well as the relevant trade press in Europe, Asia, the US and Latin America. Dr. Schanz was also quoted by The Economist and The Financial Times.

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Phillip Thorpe moved to the United Kingdom in 1989 as CEO of the Association of Futures Brokers and Dealers, later becoming an Executive Director of the Securities and Futures Authority. In 1991 he was seconded to the London Commodity Exchange ("London Fox") as CEO. He subsequently assisted the Securities and Investments Board in a review of the UK regulatory system. In 1993 Phillip Thorpe was appointed Chief Executive of IMRO, the organisation responsible for the regulation of the investment management industry in the United Kingdom. Following the 1997 general election Phillip Thorpe was appointed as a Managing Director of the newly formed Financial Services Authority (FSA). The FSA is responsible for the regulation of all insurance, banking, securities and investment business in the United Kingdom.

In August 2001 Phillip Thorpe took up a new appointment as President of the Futures Industry Institute, based in Washington, D.C. The Institute is a not-for-profit organisation providing a wide range of data services, statements of best practice and training and examination services to the financial services industry.

In August 2002 Phillip Thorpe was recruited to establish a new regulatory body in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. In his role as Chief Executive Officer, Phillip Thorpe put together a team of regulators to take this work forward. He oversaw the construction of the legal framework and the regulatory processes leading to the launch of the Dubai Financial Services Authority in October 2004.

In March 2005 Phillip Thorpe took up the post of Chairman and Chief Executive of the QFC Regulatory Authority. The Authority provides an integrated regulatory regime for Qatar's new centre for financial services. The Qatar Financial Centre evidences global best practices and provides facilities for businesses to participate in the rapidly growing Qatari economy.

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He has a broad regional practice advising local and foreign insurance interests on a wide range of matters, including an increasing amount of GCC regulatory work, including in the DIFC and QFC. Wayne is a frequent speaker at regional insurance market events and a regular contributor to industry publications. He is described as a “fine reinsurance lawyer” by Legal 500.

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In this capacity, he was responsible for building up Munich Re’s marine excess of loss and Protection & Indemnity business. In 1997 he was appointed as Deputy Member of the Executive Management and was responsible for the purchase of Lloyd’s Syndicate 457 (Lloyd’s Watkins) which has since developed to become the leading marine syndicate within Lloyd’s. In 1999 he became Head of Marine Department and was appointed as Member of the Executive Management. Since July, 2001, he is responsible as Chief Executive for Munich Re’s Middle East and African business.

In his leisure time he enjoys mountaineering, mountain biking and skiing as well as listening to audiophile music.

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He specialises in advising on insurance and reinsurance in the GCC (reinsurance optimisation, treaty and individual risk pricing, capital modelling, business planning, claims reserving and presenting to rating agencies). He is authorised in Bahrain as a registered actuary, in Bermuda as a Loss Reserve Specialist and to sign actuarial opinions for Lloyd’s syndicates in the UK.

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Alex founded RI3K in May 2000 to build an electronic trading exchange for the insurance sector. In May 2007 a consortium led by Michael Spencer of ICAP and the hedge fund Eton Park took majority control of RI3K. RI3K employs about 70 staff and has a network of more than 170 companies trading on its service.

Alex is married with 4 children and lives in London.

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Osama has a degree in Law and is an ACII from UK.

He joined AIG in 1999 as a Branch Manager of UAE and subsequently became the General Manager of the AIG-UAE operations. He then assumed responsibility for the Energy and Casualty profit centre for the Arabian Region following which Osama became part of the Middle East, Mediterranean and South Asia Regional Team as Regional Vice President for Casualty Lines.

Osama has been instrumental in establishing and leading our operations in the Arabian Countries.

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His experience includes structures and lifelines reliability under natural hazard severe conditions

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Shaun is one of the founding management team members who are expanding the Heritage operations into the Middle East. Previously Shaun was their Director responsible for Business Development across Europe and Bermuda. Shaun specialises in the design and implementation of structured programmes utilising reinsurance capacity and a range of non-conventional means of security, and the development of bespoke insurance solutions.

Shaun has a BSc (Hons) in Financial Services and is a Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute and an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers.

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This was followed by five years in Lloyds as Deputy Syndicate underwriter and Marine Underwriter of Syndicate 1243 and now to his current role at QIC Group Doha as Executive Vice President , QIC International LLC- responsible for the International Underwriting Unit based in the QFC in Doha, Where an extensive book of Facultative and Treaty reinsurance is written for the Arab World, Africa and Asia. He is also responsible for the Outwards Reinsurance Protections on the QIC Group.

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His extensive experience encompasses all aspects of major projects and includes: advising Clients on appropriate forms of contract; options for contract insurance e.g. Owner Controlled Insurance Packages, for both consultancy and contractor services; risk management; and project delivery from inception to commissioning and handover.

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Clive joined A.M. Best Europe in 2001. He has extensive international experience of insurance market and risk management practice. Prior to joining A.M. Best, he was head of insurance supervision at the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority and previously had a variety of consulting roles with KPMG, Marsh and Tillinghast. His early career was in corporate finance and treasury functions in the City of London. Clive is a graduate of Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and is a Fellow and past Governor of the Institute of Risk Management. He is a regular speaker and writer on risk topics.

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