Sheikha Hanadi Al Thani Leaves Lasting Impact Across Qatar and Beyond

Sheikha Hanadi Al Thani has enjoyed a long and distinguished career, renowned for her entrepreneurial spirit and leadership skills. She is the Founder andChairperson Amwal LLC the Founder and hashtag#CEO of the AL Waab City Real Estate development project, the CEO of the Nasser Bin Khaled and Sons Holdings and the Founding Chairperson of Q-Auto LLC

Sheikha Hanadi is deeply passionate about community service and corporate social responsibility, and is considered a pioneer in these areas. She holds leadership positions in a variety of respected charitable and educational organizations, including serving as a trustee on the board of the @College for Business and Economics at Qatar University, as the Chairperson of INJAZ Qatar” and “INJAZ AL Arab”, and as a member of the Middle East Board of “Planet Finance”. Additionally, she is a member of the Board of Governance of the Pearl Initiative, the advisory board of the harvard business review Al Arabiya, and the Founding Co-Chairperson of the 30% Club GCC chapter.

Over the course of a decade, Sheikha Hanadi has continued to diversify her portfolio, serving as a board member of “Dana Gas”, an Executive Committee Member in “Silatech a Special Advisor to Standard Chartered Bank and a member of the Bank’s Gulf Advisory Council (GAC), as well as an advisory board member of the MIT Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship.

Throughout her distinguished career, Sheikha Hanadi has been the recipient of numerous accolades and honors. She was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2005, voted as the Personality of the Year by Arraya, Qatar’s leading newspaper, and awarded the hashtag#CEO of the Year title by the Middle East CEO Awards Institute in 2006. She has also been selected by Arabian Business Magazine as one of the world’s 100 most influential Arabs for multiple consecutive years. In 2007, the Qatar Chamber of Commerce and Business Council named her the ‘Economic Personality of the Year’, and in 2008, the Financial Times recognized her as one of the Top 20 female role models in banking and finance. In 2010, she was honored with the ‘Businesswoman of the Year’ award from ITP publishing Group.

Sheikha Hanadi, a mother of 3 children, holds an Executive-MBA from the london Business School, a Masters degree in Economics from the University of London, and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Qatar University.