Mr. Yousef bin Ali bin Yousef Al -Khater has been member of the Shura Council since 2021. Currently, he is Chairman of the Shura Council’s Internal and External Affairs Committee; Member of the Advisory Board of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC); and Chairman of Qatar Parliamentary Friendship Group with the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Since 2023, Mr. Al -Khater has been elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of Qatar Red Crescent Society, and he was re-elected for another term in 2024. During his diplomatic career, he worked at the Office of the State Minister for Foreign Affairs in 2006, then served as a consul in Houston, Texas, the United States (2007 -11) and ambassador in Australia and later the United Kingdom until 2021. Mr. Al -Khater obtained Master of Public Administration from the American University –Washington, D.C. (2000). Over the period 1992 -2006, he worked at the Ministry of Education (MOE), ending up as Secretary -General of MOE Qatar National Commission for Education, Culture, and Science. He represented Qatar as member of the Executive Councils of the Arab League Educational, Cultural, and Scientific Organization (ALECSO) and the Islamic World Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (ICESCO). He attended numerous regional and international conferences.