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CDRS Independent Adjudicators

HE Dr Mohammed Abdulaziz Al-Khulaifi Professor Robin Callender Smith

The QFCRA appointed HE Dr Mohammed Abdulaziz The QFCRA appointed Professor Robin Callender

Al-Khulaifi to be a CDRS Independent Adjudicator for Smith to be a CDRS Independent Adjudicator in
the period of December 2017 to 28 February 2022. September 2013. Professor Callender Smith is

HE Dr Al-Kulaifi is Minister of State at the Ministry of a Deputy Chairman for the Regulatory Decisions

Foreign Affairs and has been the Dean of the College Committee of the Financial Conduct Authority. He is
of Law, Qatar University, and Associate Professor of also Chairman of the Independent Appeals Board of

Commercial Law, College of Law, Qatar University the premium rate telephone regulator in the UK and

since 2011. He earned his LL.B from Qatar University has recently been appointed as a non-executive lay

and his LL.M and JSD from the University of California, member of the UK’s Chartered Insurance Institute.

Berkeley in the United States. He has published a
number of reviewed scientific articles in the field Professor Callender Smith has worked as a barrister

of commercial law on topics such as bankruptcy since 1977 after spending four years as a journalist.

and the acquisition of commercial companies. He is also an Information Rights Judge and an

Immigration Judge. Professor Callender Smith has

spent over 30 years as a media lawyer for national
newspapers and 10 years in the City of London dealing

with significant financial takeovers and mergers

as well as issues relating to compliance, corporate

governance and professional standards in the financial

services sector. Professor Callender Smith is a former
elected member of the UK Bar Council and Gray’s Inn

Barristers’ Committee. He is also a Vice President

of London Youth, London’s largest youth charity.