Shady Mohamed Qubaty
Manager- Strategy & Planning
Qatar Navigation (Milaha)
A Member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport, the Institute of Directors, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Shady is the Strategy & Planning Manager at Milaha, Qatar’s leading maritime and logistics company. Qubaty is also the Founder and CEO of Yemen’s leading international NGO: Adalah (secretariat to the UK Parliament) and serves as the VP of the Economic Forum for Sustainable Development. In those capacities, he has engaged in various UN meetings, spoken before and moderated panels at numerous parliaments, and was the youngest speaker at the Beirut Institute Summits. Additionally, Shady chairs the MENSA MENA Chapter, is a trustee of the British Yemeni Society, and serves on the Board of Directors for the Yale Alumni Fund, the For Humanity Campaign, and the Arab Alumni Association.
As their first undergraduate from Yemen, Shady received his BA from Yale where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated summa cum laude with double distinctions in economics and Near Eastern studies. Having received Yale’s 2020 Henry Fellowship, he has completed a master’s degree in development studies with distinction at Cambridge (King’s College). An honorary recipient of a Cambridge Trust Award and King’s College Scholarship, Shady was elected president of the Cambridge Arab Society, Cambridge Yemen Society, and the Cambridge Society for Social & Economic Development. He was also elected course representative, where he represented his MPhil cohort in the Development Studies Executive Committee and the Marshall Library Committee. At Yale, he served as president of his college council and the Arab Students Association, and founded the MENA Students Association as a first step towards establishing a fifth cultural center on campus. He is a contributing author to the seminal volume "GCC Achievements & Challenges: Navigating Regional & International Relations” (EIP, 2025).