Meeting with the President of Qatar Development Bank
23.05.2022
On 23rd May Ambassador Janusz Janke met with Abdulrahman H. Al Sowaidi, acting CEO of Qatar Development Bank. The meeting focused on identifying areas of cooperation between Polish and Qatar enterprises, as well as to analysing the possibilities of increasing QDB activity in Poland in the near future.
The interlocutor emphasized the long-term interest of the Qatari side in the development of economic relations with Poland, hoping that the extensive internal market and industrialization would provide Qatari producers with an opportunity to sell their products. He emphasized the willingness to increase the activity of institutions in our country at the fair, pointing out that a group of QDB delegations was going to Poland, which will accompany 8 Qatar companies in the plastics sector planning to participate in the Plastpol fair in Kielce. He stressed the leading role of this institution in promoting the domestic non-oil industry and exports. He expressed his gratitude for the organization of another edition of the Qatar-Poland New Tech Forum, scheduled for 30th May this year as another opportunity to support the development of bilateral economic relations.
Qatar Development Bank is responsible for supporting the development of entrepreneurship in Qatar. For this purpose it has the tools to promote export and internationalization of companies, development of small and medium-sized enterprises, and manages a number of business incubators (in the sports, fintech, fashion and design sectors). Having the above as its goals it organizes, among others, missions of Qatar entrepreneurs to leading foreign trade fairs.