Ali bin Saeed bin Smaikh Al Marri

Ali bin Saeed bin Samikh Al-Marri is a Qatari human rights figure and politician born on November 30, 1972. He was appointed Minister of Labour of the State of Qatar on October 19, 2021. Before taking up the ministerial portfolio, he had chaired the National Human Rights Committee (NHRC) for State of Qatar since 2009. He also served as Acting President and Secretary-General of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions and as President of the Arab Network of National Human Rights Institutions. In 2012 he was elected chairman of the Permanent Arab Committee on Human Rights of the Arab League and Chairman of the Asia Pacific Forum for the session 2013 to 2015. He was re-elected as Chairman of the NHRC of the State of Qatar in 2019.