The award winners at the event.
Qatar British Business Forum (QBBF) has announced the winners of its second annual awards ceremonyorganised to recognise business excellence and those members of the Qatari community, who have made outstanding contributionsin the British community.
The awards ceremony was held at the Oryx Rotana Doha before an audience of valued guests, dignitaries and VIPs.The event was convened under the authority of British Ambassador to Qatar Ajay Sharma.
The awards are apart of an ongoing series of events and activities designed to promote business opportunities in Qatar and to strengthen commercial ties between the two nations.In particular, these initiatives focus on enhancing trade relations betweenQatar and the UK. QBBF’s mission is to support local economic diversification as a part of Qatar’s National Vision 2030.
In 2016, for the first time, the Awards committee presented winners in two new categories, the Lifetime Achievement Award, denoting an individual who has made enduring and outstanding contributions to the Qatar British Business Forum and to its mission; and theSabri Thawabi Special Recognition Award, bestowed on a finalist who has demonstrated exemplary commitment and is awarded at the discretion of the QBBF committee. The latter award was named after a British Embassy staff member who moved to Qatar from Palestine in 1960.
Ambassador Sharma said: “I am delighted to host the Qatar British Business Forum’s second annual awards ceremony. This is a great opportunity to recognise business excellence and the British business community’s partnership with Qatar. I would like to thank the QBBF team and its business network for the important role they play in promoting business and contact between our two countries.”
QBBF Chairman and CEO of the Rumaillah Group, Emad Turkman MBE said: “The QBBF awards were introduced to recognise those individuals and companies making tremendous contributions to the business community and in furthering the trade between the UK and Qatar." "This year the caliber of nominees was exceptionaland we received an overwhelming number of nominations. In the end, although it was challenging to choose, we conferred these awards onan outstanding group of individuals and organisations.", he said.
The members of Qatar British Business Forum, which works closely with the UK Department for International Trade at the British Embassy, nominated QBBF Individual and Corporate peers for awards in seven different categories.
