Former Minister of Justice between 2008 and 2014, United Arab Emirates. He held several positions, including: Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Supreme Council of the “Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf,” Chairman of the Supreme Council of the “Emirati Federal Judiciary,” the “Zakat Fund of the United Arab Emirates,” and the “ Institute for Judicial Training and Studies .” He was Director of the United Arab Emirates University from 1994 to 2007, a member of the teaching staff at the College of Sharia and Law at the same university, and a legal advisor to the Government of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi between 1993 and 1994. He founded Hadif Al Dhaheri & Partners, a law firm and legal consultancy, and was a partner in it between 1980 and 2007. He holds a doctorate in constitutional law in 1991 from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.