Ali Bin Fetais Al-Marri

Ali Bin Fetais Al-Marri began his career in 1997 as an assistant at Qatar University, where he taught international law.

In 1997, he was appointed Assistant Secretary-General of the Council of Ministers and attended weekly meetings.

From 1998, he headed the legal department of the Diwan of the Emir of Qatar, with the position of Under-Secretary.

In March 2001, Ali Bin Fetais Al-Marri represented Qatar before the International Court of Justice in the case of maritime delimitation and territorial issues between Qatar and Bahrain.[9]

Ali Bin Fetais Al-Marri is appointed Attorney General of Qatar by a decree of the Emir on June 19, 2002.[7]

Dr. Al Marri attending a local event in Doha, Qatar

Ali Bin Fetais Al-Marri has been a member of the United Nations International Law Commission since 2002[10]

In September 2012, in the aftermath of the Arab Spring, Ali Bin Fetais Al-Marri was appointed Special Regional Representative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) for the recovery of stolen assets.[11]

His mandate was renewed in 2014[12]

Ali Bin Fetais Al-Marri is the president and founder of the Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption Centre, a Qatari organization founded in 2009. In March 2017, ROLACC opened a Geneva office, ROLACC Geneva also chaired by Ali Bin Fetais Al-Marri, his secretary-general being a member of his family, Abdulmehsen Hamad Fetais, born in 1985.[8][13]

On December 8, 2017, ROLACC Geneva awarded at the Palace of Nations in Geneva a series of anti-corruption awards to personalities who came from China, the United States, Jordan and Italy.[14]

In October 2013, Ali Bin Fetais Al-Marri acquired a mansion located at 86 Avenue d'Iéna in Paris. The transaction was made in the name of the real estate company IENA 86. The capital of this company is divided into 100 shares, of which 98 are registered in the name of Ali Bin Fetais Al-Marri, the last two being held by two of his sons, Hamad Ali, born in 2002, and Tameen Ali, born in 2013.[15][16]

On November 10, 2015, the Swiss company GSG Immobilier SA acquired a property located at Route de Ferney 221, in the Geneva municipality of Grand-Saconnex.

The building located on Route de Ferney 221 is home to the offices of ROLACC Geneva, the anti-corruption organisation founded and chaired by Ali Bin Fetais Al-Marri.[17]

On August 26, 2013, Ali Bin Fetais Al-Marri acquired a villa located on Chemin de Bonnevaux 15, in the upscale district of Cologny in Geneva.

According to Mediapart and the pan-Arab news website Al-Arabia, Ali Bin Fetais Al-Marri's real estate company IENA 86, owner of the mansion in Paris, has bank accounts at the Paris branch of the National Bank of Kuwait.[17][16]

In addition, his Geneva-based company GSG Immobilier SA also has accounts in the Geneva branch of the Kuwaiti bank.

In February 2015, the Public Prosecution Office launched an advertising campaign urging Qatari residents to act as government whistleblowers and report financial corruption in government organizations. In May 2016, the General Assembly of the International Association of Anti-Corruption Authorities (“IAACA”), a non-governmental organization affiliated with the United Nations, unanimously elected Qatar’s Attorney General, Dr. Ali bin Fetais Al Marri, to serve as President of the IAACA. Dr. Al Marri has called on all states to become parties to the IAACA Recent Movement In October 2016, Qatar implemented Law No. 11 of 2016, which was designed to increase scrutiny of public money in a new effort to combat corruption by providing greater financial authority and independence to the State Audit Bureau. In 2018, Qatar launched a journal on the rule of law and anti-corruption entitled Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption Center or “ROLACC.” In January 2019, ROLACC signed a cooperation agreement on fighting sport corruption with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. https://www.jonesday.com/-/media/files/publications/2019/11/anticorruption-regulation-survey-2019/files/anticorruption-regulation-survey-2019/fileattachment/anticorruption-regulation-survey-2019.pdf

Qatar has paid particular attention to the rights of future generations and the need to secure a future for them, and it is not only responsible for the rights of current generations. This is a clear pledge in Qatar’s Vision that it cares about the rights of its future generations through sustainable development.[18]

Homosexual relationships are condemned by the death penalty in Qatar, and by seven years of deprivation of liberty for non-Muslims.

As Attorney General, Ali Bin Fetais Al-Marri is responsible for enforcing these convictions.

Qatar has introduced new labour laws: the country is establishing the first minimum wage in the Gulf States, which will increase the wages of 400,000 migrant workers by 33%. The country is also dismantling the “kafala” sponsorship system and is enabling migrant workers to change employers and exit and enter the country for work more easily. Observers welcomed the reforms in the context of the upcoming 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, which relies heavily on migrant labour in the construction sector, and are now focused on implementation.[19]

Grand Officer of the Order of the Republic (2013).