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Wael al qadi brfc president
Wael Abdulkader Al-Qadi (born 25 November 1969 in Qatar) is the President of Bristol Rovers Football Club.
A member of the Al-Qadi family, who founded the Arab Jordan Investment Bank in Amman, Jordan, Wael was educated at Westminster School in London. While at school in the UK capital in the early 80's, he began regularly attending Chelsea matches. He earned a degree in Computer Science with Business Administration at Boston University, graduating in 1991.
Al-Qadi became vice-chairman of the Asian Football Development Project in 2011, an executive board member of the Jordan Football Association in 2014, an executive board member of the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup Jordan 2016, and was a member of the campaign team behind Prince Ali bin Hussein's campaign for the presidency of FIFA at the FIFA Extraordinary Congress in February 2016.
He and his family purchased Bristol Rovers in February 2016, and immediately installed Steve Hamer as the club's chairman.
