Emirati diplomat.

She has been the UAE's non-resident Ambassador to Grenada since November 2017, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation for Political Affairs, Co-Chair of the Intergovernmental Negotiations on Security Council Reform since 2018, and Co-Chair of the Group of Friends for the Future of the United Nations.

She is also a researcher in the Security and Terrorism Studies Research Program at the Gulf Research Center , a member of the Board of Trustees of the Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy , and a member of the Advisory Board of the Middle East Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom.

Awarded the rank of Minister by Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan on December 28, 2021.

She served as the UAE's Permanent Representative to the United Nations. She contributed to the establishment of the Policy Planning Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation in 2009, serving as its first director for three years. She also served as the UAE's Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan from 2010 to 2011. Prior to that, she headed the task force responsible for the International Renewable Energy Agency's campaign at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation , and was Director of the Research and Communications Department at the Ministry of State for Federal National Council Affairs .

She served as Vice-President of the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly and President of the Executive Board of UN Women in 2017. She served as co-facilitator of the ad hoc group on revitalization of the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly and as co-facilitator of the comprehensive review of the implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society in 2015.

She worked for UNESCO in Paris as a consultant on a project to advance the status of Arab women in scientific and technological training in the Middle East, in addition to her work with the Council for Arab-British Understanding (CAABU) in the United Kingdom.

She won the Mohammed bin Rashid Award for Government Excellence in 2017 and was selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2014.

She holds an MA and BA in History from Cambridge University in the United Kingdom, and an MA in Israeli and Jewish Diaspora Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London in the United Kingdom.