Wael al-Qadi

Wael Abdulkader Al-Qadi (born 25 November 1969 in Jordan) is a Jordanian football executive, best known as the current club president of English club Bristol Rovers and a member of the Al-Qadi family. Biography Early life and education 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 1980s, he began regularly attending Chelsea matches. He earned a degree in Computer Science with Business Administration at Boston University, graduating in 1991. Involvement in football 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.