Elizabeth Tower on a navy tile and Qatar's white serrated band on a maroon roundel, with one gold figure standing between them on the route

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UK · Qatar

The UK-Qatar Business Bridge

majlis. The sitting room where Qataris receive guests, talk things through and settle matters face to face.

Take a tour of the UK-Qatar Bridge Who stands in the middle

What this is

The UK-Qatar Business Bridge is for UK businesses that want to win work, partners or investment in Qatar, and for Qatari companies and investors who want a British contact someone has already vouched for.

Qatar and the UK have long ties, with Qatari investment behind some of London's best known buildings and British firms at work across Doha. Yet for a smaller company on either side, the first door is still the hardest. In Qatar it usually opens through a personal recommendation, and that is what this Bridge is built to give.

A single host, between London and Doha

This Bridge does not have one host in each country. It has one person who works with both, and who personally decides which British and Qatari firms ought to meet. Ask him, and he either knows someone worth your time or tells you plainly that he does not.

UK businesses that want to win work, partners or investment in Qatar.

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Abdur Rahman Ilott

Host, UK and Qatar · REG-1

AR, as Abdur Rahman Ilott is known, stands in the middle of this Bridge, working from the United Kingdom. As Chief Commercial Officer of REG-1 he brings AI-native compliance automation to firms that answer to Qatar's own rulebooks, from the Qatar Central Bank, the QFC and the QFMA to the PDPPL data protection law.

He has sold into Qatar himself, winning a large Qatari distributor he met at Gulfood and first orders from Monoprix Qatar, and he has sourced Gulf project finance for large projects in Africa. Earlier in his career he worked for DHL in Saudi Arabia and Sudan, and he later led British schools in Khartoum.

A first class SOAS graduate who speaks English, French and Arabic, he has made 148 introductions on My Most Trusted.

More about AR

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Qatari companies and investors who want a British contact someone has vouched for.

From introduction to first meeting

A personal note to both of you.AR introduces you only when he can say, in a sentence, why each of you should want the meeting.
No cold outreach, no bought data.Members are not sold to on arrival, and their details never leave the network.
Your circle travels with you.The people who vouch for you stay attached to your profile, in any club, in any country.
Doha is a short time zone away.Qatar is two hours ahead of the UK in summer and three in winter, with a Sunday to Thursday week, so a London morning works for a first call.
You join by referral.The point is not to be the biggest network in either country. It is to be a room where everyone in it can be vouched for by somebody already inside it.

Worth a read

Read How does a UK business find clients and investors in Qatar?

A plain guide for British business owners who want Qatari clients, partners or investment, and for Qatari firms looking at the UK. Why the first door in Doha is the hardest, what the majlis teaches about doing business there, and how a personal referral gets you a seat at the table.

See it for yourself

Every Qatari family has a majlis, a room or tent where guests are welcomed, coffee is poured and the news of the week is shared. A good deal of Qatari business has been agreed there long before anything was signed in an office. You do not walk into a majlis uninvited. Somebody brings you. That is exactly what an introduction on this Bridge is: a seat in the right majlis, through a person both sides trust.

Take a tour of the UK-Qatar Bridge