Young served as President of the Qatar Foundation from 2004-2006.

Qatar Foundation carries out its mission by focusing on three pillars-education, science and research, and community development.

In primary and secondary education, Qatar Foundation has several efforts:

Qatar Foundation has therefore established a number of commercial joint ventures with global partners.

Cornell is only one of the universities that the Qatar Foundation has approached.

The Qatar Foundation is continuing to talk to other top universities about setting up programs in business, engineering and information technology, although it will not name them.

Each of these universities was selected by Qatar Foundation to offer specific degree programs, mostly in disciplines for which the schools are particularly renowned.

All costs for the development of this campus are paid for by the non-profit Qatar Foundation.

Please note that Qatar Foundation will consider all scholarship amounts as 'income' in making financial aid (loan) awards.

Student housing is managed by Qatar Foundation and shared among the Education City campuses.