Abdullah bin Khalid Al Attiyah is a

Qatari Qatar, officially the State of Qatar, is a country in West Asia. It occupies the Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East; it shares its sole land border with Saudi Arabia to the south, with the ...

banker and former governor of the Central Bank of Qatar. He was born in 1953 in Qatar. He has degrees in public policy from

Johns Hopkins University The Johns Hopkins University (often abbreviated as Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1876 based on the European research institution model, J ...

and in public administration from

Central Michigan University Central Michigan University (CMU) is a Public university, public research university in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, United States. It was established in 1892 as a private normal school and became a state institution in 1895. CMU is one of the eigh ...

. Al Attiyah worked as first secretary in the Qatari embassy to the USA from 1978 to 1982. Then he worked in

Qatar National Bank Qatar National Bank (QNB Group) () is a Qatari multinational commercial bank headquartered in Doha, Qatar. It was founded in 1964 and currently has subsidiaries and associates in 31 countries on three continents. The bank's ownership is evenly d ...

since 1982, and was chosen as the chief executive of

from December 1986 to January 1990. He was appointed governor of the Qatar Monetary Agency in 1990. He retired in May 2006. The position of the governor of the central bank was elevated to a ministerial rank in 1992.

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