As Kuwait’s anti-corruption authority takes shape (see main story), in Qatar, the Administrative Control and Transparency Authority (ACTA), set up in late 2011 by emiri decree, is not as advanced. Qatar’s well-known former energy minister Abdullah Bin Hamad Al-Attiyah was appointed head of the body in December 2011 (following his retirement from the energy portfolio earlier in the year) with the rank of prime minister; the high rank was seen at the time as a move to help him stand up to other heavyweights in the cabinet of the then emir Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani.