Dr. Talal Abdulla Al-Emadi is the Dean of College of Law at Qatar University (QU), and a founding faculty member of the College of Law. He is a registered lawyer with the Qatari Bar. He was seconded from QU to the Amiri Diwan as a legal counselor for the Minister of State for the Council of Ministers Affairs. He holds a doctorate degree in law (DPhil) from the University of Oxford. His thesis questioned the preference of joint venture agreements in the Qatari gas industry. He holds a Master degree in law (LLM) from Harvard University, and he returned to Harvard as a Visiting Scholar in 2010. He was among the first QU law graduating class, in 1994, to receive the Bachelor of law degree (LLB) after which he was the first teaching assistant (TA) who joined the then Department of Law (now College of Law). He is also an alumnus of Georgetown Leadership Seminar (Washington DC) and the Cornell University Public Sector Leadership Program, as part of the first the Arabic cohort through the UN’s ESCWA.
