Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi (Arabic: سلطان سعود القاسمي) is an Emirati educator, art collector, scholar, and columnist.

[11] In February 2014 Al-Qassemi joined the Global Commission on Internet Governance[12] and in the summer of 2014 became an MIT Media Lab Director's Fellow.

[13] He has completed a number of academic fellowships and residencies, including at Yale as a World Fellow,[14] at the Kennedy School's Belfer Center[15] at Harvard University,[16] and others.

In 2013 Sultan Al Qassemi was criticised[29] for suggesting in an article[30] that continuous civil unrest in parts of the Arab world is leading to the emergence of Persian Gulf cities as cultural and commercial centres of the region.

Al-Qassemi has written about media in the Arab world,[31] the Jewish presence in Middle East,[32] British journalists coverage[33] of Dubai and atheism[34] in the Persian Gulf among other topics.