Qatar is estimated to have spent around $200 billion on infrastructure in preparation for the event. The country hosted the 2022 FIFA World Cup. He headed Doha's bid for the 2020 Olympics. At the 113th session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in February 2002, he was elected as a member of the IOC. Tamim is chairman of the National Olympic Committee. Under his guidance, Qatar won the rights to host the 2014 FINA Swimming World Championships and the 2022 FIFA World Cup. That year Egypt's Al Ahram voted Tamim 'the best sport personality in the Arab world'. Under his leadership, all member countries attended the event for the first time in its history. In 2006, he chaired the organizing committee of the 15th Asian Games in Doha. In 2005 he founded Oryx Qatar Sports Investments, which owns Paris Saint-Germain F.C. Sheikh Tamim promoted sport as part of Qatar's bid to raise its international profile. On 5 August 2003, he was appointed deputy commander-in-chief of Qatar's armed forces. Since then he was groomed to take over rule, working in top security and economics posts. He became the heir apparent to the Qatar throne on 5 August 2003, when his elder brother Sheikh Jassim renounced his claim to the title. Sheikh Tamim was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Qatar Armed Forces upon graduation from Sandhurst. He then attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, graduating in 1998. Tamim was educated at Great Britain's Sherborne School ( International College) in Dorset, and at Harrow School, where he sat his A-Levels in 1997. He is the fourth son of Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, and second son of Sheikha Moza bint Nasser Al-Missned, Hamad's second wife.

Tamim bin Hamad was born on 3 June 1980 in Doha, Qatar.

Tamim was regarded by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre as the most influential Muslim in the world in 2022 and ranks third in 2023. Tamim has been involved in efforts to raise Qatar's international profile through hosting sports events such as the 2022 FIFA World Cup, as well as buying Paris Saint-Germain F.C. He became emir when his father abdicated in his favor in 2013. He became heir apparent in 2003 when his older brother Sheikh Jassim renounced his claim to the throne. Tamim is the fourth son of Emir Hamad bin Khalifa. Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani ( Arabic: تميم بن حمد بن خليفة آل ثاني born 3 June 1980, Doha, Qatar) is the Emir of Qatar.

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