TIF President Met Qatar Fund for Development Senior Management

On 22 January 2026, President of the Turkic Investment Fund (TIF), H.E. Baghdad Amreyev, had a meeting with the General Director of the Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD), Mr. Fahad Hamad Al-Sulaiti, at the QFFD headquarters in Doha, Qatar.

The TIF President was accompanied by Mr. Ramil Babayev, General Director of TIF; Mr. Sanjar Usmanov, Chief Investment Officer; and Mr. Zsolt Csanadi, Chief Legal & Operations Officer. The QFFD Senior Management was also represented by Mr. Waleid Asad Ismail, Development Finance Director, and Ms. Rwodah Ibrahim Al-Naimi, Investment Department Manager.

TIF President Amreyev indicating to the alignment between the two institutions’ mandates and expressed readiness to explore practical collaboration between the two institutions built around a joint pipeline of joint projects that the two institutions could structure and co-finance. He further suggested to identify a short list of priority areas for joint work between QFFD and TIF in the short and medium terms

The QFFD Director General, Mr. Al-Sulaiti, warmly welcomed the TIF delegation and supported President Amreyev’s proposed approach to cooperation. He confirmed the QFFD’s interest in working with TIF in the Turkic region, particularly in Central Asia, with an initial focus on energy, natural resources, and export promotion. The QFFD’s other senior management also welcomed TIF’s agile and flexible approach and noted clear potential to scale up cooperation.

General Director Babayev expressed TIF’s willingness to establish close ties with QFFD through synergies in joint operations and co-financing, underlining the promising prospects for such cooperation in connectivity-related investments across TIF’s member states.

The meeting has resulted in agreement to keep the engagement active at the technical level, starting with signing a MoU to formalize cooperation and then moving to identify a first set of pilot opportunities that match both institutions’ priorities.

The sides also agreed to maintain close coordination through the Arab Coordination Group platform, as cooperation moves forward in the TIF focus region.