Hassan bin Abdulla al-Ghanim (, born in 1955) is a Qatari politician and diplomat, and the current Speaker of the Shura Council of Qatar since October 2021.
He earned a political science degree from the University of Portland in 1980. Al-Ghanim has served in the diplomatic corps of the ministry of foreign affairs, and in Qatar Embassy in Washington, D.C., Riyadh and Jeddah. From 1996 to 1999 he was under-secretary of ministry of electricity and water. In January 1999 he was appointed as minister of justice, a position which he held until 2013.
On 26 October 2021 he was elected by the Council to be its Speaker.
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