Majed Al-Ansari is Advisor to the Prime Minister and the Official Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State of Qatar. Previously, he served as the Director of Policy at the Institute of Social and Economic Survey Research (SESRI) at Qatar University (QU). During his work at the university, he also served as an assistant professor at QU's Department of International Affairs. He started his career as a researcher in international relations at the office of the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs in 2005.
He is actively engaged with various local, regional and international research centres and think tanks. He established and heads the Center for International Policy Research (CIPR), which works on political risk analysis, consulting for the government and commercial sectors, on conflicts, Track Two diplomacy, humanitarian and development issues, and management of events in the Arabian Gulf region and beyond.
He received his bachelor's degree in political science from Leeds University in the UK as well as a MA and PhD in social change from the Cathy Marsh Institute at the University of Manchester.
