Qatar Investment Authority

QIA was established by Amiri Decision No. 22 of 2005, which set out its objectives and governance framework. QIA is responsible to the Supreme Council for Economic Affairs and Investment (SCEAI) of the State of Qatar, with a mission of developing, investing and managing the State reserve funds.⁠[1]

QIA’s investment operations began in 2006, and in 2007 its focus shifted to direct investments. In 2008 QIA co-authored the Santiago Principles, a set of good-governance practices for sovereign wealth funds, and became a founding member of the International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds (IFSWF).⁠[1]

Between 2009 and 2015 QIA expanded its internal investment teams, diversified its portfolio and co-invested globally, opening an advisory office in New York in 2015; in 2010 it set up a graduate training scheme for Qatari nationals; and from 2015–2016 its focus turned to broadening its portfolio through diversification.⁠[1]

In 2017 QIA became one of the six founding members of the One Planet Sovereign Wealth Fund Group, an initiative to integrate climate-related risks and opportunities into portfolio management. In 2018 Mansoor Al-Mahmoud was appointed chief executive officer.⁠[1]

In 2020 QIA’s chief executive announced at the World Economic Forum annual meeting that QIA would make no new investments in fossil fuels; the same year QIA underwent a strategic reorganization with a new asset allocation approach and long-term investment plan.⁠[1]

Amiri Decision No. 34 of 2023 reorganized QIA and established its governance framework, replacing Amiri Decision No. 22 of 2005. The government of the State of Qatar has determined that QIA is a savings fund.⁠[1][2]

In 2024 Mohammed Saif Al-Sowaidi was appointed chief executive officer of QIA. That year QIA launched its Fund of Funds program, with an initial size of US$1 billion, at Web Summit 2024 to invest in regional and international venture capital firms.⁠[1][3]

QIA first invested in AnthropicAnthropicAnthropic is an artificial intelligence research and product company founded in 2021 that develops the Claude models, assistant, and tools such as Claude Code, and operates as a public benefit corporation. Dario Amodei and Daniela Amodei are its co-founders, and its research covers model safety, interpretability, and steerability.Open the full entry in September 2025. In February 2026 it took part in Anthropic’s US$30 billion Series G led by GICGICGIC is a long-term investment management institution wholly owned by the Government of Singapore, established in 1981 and headquartered in Singapore. It is entrusted with investing Singapore’s foreign reserves across equities, fixed income, private equity, real estate, and infrastructure, in order to preserve and enhance the reserves’ international purchasing power. The company is now named GIC Private Limited; its chairman is Lee Hsien Loong and its chief executive officer is Lim Chow Kiat.Open the full entry and Coatue (at a US$380 billion post-money valuation), and in May 2026 in its US$65 billion Series H (at a US$965 billion post-money valuation), QIA’s third consecutive funding round with the company.⁠[4][5]

On December 22, 2025 QIA announced that, as a strategic investor, it would partner with Trian Fund Management and General CatalystGeneral CatalystGeneral Catalyst (GC) is an investment firm founded in 2000 and headquartered in San Francisco, United States, created by Joel Cutler, David Fialkow and Bill Fitzgerald, that backs companies from the seed stage through growth.Open the full entry in an all-cash take-private of Janus Henderson Group plcJanus HendersonJanus Henderson is a global active asset manager whose predecessors were the British Henderson Group and the American Janus Capital Group; the company was formerly listed on the New York Stock Exchange (ticker JHG) and is now a private company.Open the full entry at an equity value of about US$7.4 billion, with shareholders other than Trian receiving US$49.00 per share in cash. On June 30, 2026 QIA announced the completion of the transaction; Janus Henderson kept its management team led by CEO Ali Dibadj and its main presence in London and Denver.⁠[6][7]

On February 1, 2026 QIA announced an additional US$2 billion for its Fund of Funds program, bringing total capital commitments to US$3 billion; five new funds—Greycroft, Ion Pacific, Liberty City Ventures, Shorooq and Speedinvest—joined, bringing the number of regional and international fund managers supported in Qatar to 12. Before the expansion the program had committed more than US$1 billion to venture capital firms.⁠[3]

Qatar Investment Authority: Official website: https://www.qia.qa/ (opens in a new window).⁠[2]

LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry: Public profile: https://www.linkedin.com/company/qatar-investment-authority/ (opens in a new window).⁠[2]