Sheikha Lubna bint Khalid bin Sultan Al Qasimi (

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: لبنى بنت خالد بن سلطان القاسمي; born 4 February 1962) is an Emirati politician and member of the

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and the niece to Sheikh

Sultan bin Muhammad Al-Qasimi Sheikh Sultan bin Muhammad Al-Qasimi (; born 2 July 1939) is an Emirati royal, politician, author, historian, and the current and 11th ruler of the Emirate of Sharjah and a member of the Federal Supreme Council of the United Arab Emirates s ...

. She was previously the Minister of State for Tolerance, Minister of State for International Cooperation, and Minister of Economic and Planning of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). She was the first woman to hold a ministerial post in the UAE. She has been President of

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since 2014.

History

Lubna graduated from the

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with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, and has an

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from the

American University of Sharjah The American University of Sharjah (AUS; Arabic: الجامعة الأميركية في الشارقة) is a private university in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. It was founded in 1997 by Sultan bin Muhammad Al-Qasimi, Supreme Council Member a ...

. Lubna received an honorary doctorate of science from California State University, Chico. She returned to the UAE to work as a programmer for software company Datamation in 1981. She was the Dubai branch manager for the General Information Authority, the organization responsible for automating the federal government of the United Arab Emirates. After this posting, she worked for seven years in the

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(DPA). As part of a cabinet reshuffle, the prime minister of UAE, Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, announced that Sheikha Lubna would take a post as a minister in the newly established

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Honours and awards

* 36th most powerful woman in the world by ''Forbes''. * Lifetime Achievement Award at Asia HRD Congress 2012 * Honorary Dame Commander of The Most Excellent

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, 2013

References

External links

Forbes Profile

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