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Engineering Qatar Airways growth
April 1st 2025
Engr. Badr Mohammed Al-Meer took on the role of Group CEO of Qatar Airways Group on November 5, 2023. Read More » His appointment underscored a distinguished career, forged over two decades, pioneering multi-billion-dollar aviation, construction and real estate development projects.
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Throughout his career, he has played pivotal roles in some of Qatar’s most intricate and iconic development projects. Notably serving as the COO of Hamad International Airport (HIA) since 2014, leading critical divisions such as MATAR (Airport Company), Qatar Duty Free, Qatar Aviation Services, Qatar Aircraft Catering Company, Qatar Distribution Centre, Dhiafatina, and Real Estate.
At HIA, he guided the airport through major milestones and the challenges of the pandemic, an expansion project and the group’s delivery of services during the FIFA World Cup in Qatar in 2022.
From 2018 to 2020, Al-Meer was a Board Director of Airports Council International (ACI) Asia-Pacific, contributing to Future Airport Development and Airport Sustainability.
With engineering degrees from the American University of Beirut and the University of Colorado, he has brought a solid educational foundation and a wealth of business insight and technical expertise in engineering, construction and large-scale project development to the Qatar Airways Group following the iconoclastic but controversial leadership style of his successor Al Baker.
