Group Chief General Counsel and Company Secretary at Emirates NBD, UAE.

She has extensive experience in legal affairs spanning 15 years of work in both the private and public sectors. Lubna Qasim previously served as Director of the Economic Legislation Department at the UAE Ministry of Economy, where she established and headed the Economic Legislation Department, which is responsible for enacting and updating economic legislation in the country. She also established and headed the Legal and Legislative Affairs Department and was an executive member of the Dubai Economic Council.

She previously worked at one of the world's leading law firms, Clifford Chance, in the corporate and commercial departments of the firm's Dubai and London offices. She currently attends the Fellowship Committee meetings of the World Economic Forum, specializing in global economics, at Kiel University in Germany.

Lubna Qassim is the first Emirati woman to work at the World Bank as a public sector advisor, and also served in the House of Lords of the UK Parliament in 2009. 

She was also nominated to participate in a prestigious leadership program at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. 

She was also selected and invited by the White House to participate in the US Presidential Entrepreneurship Summit in April 2010. Most recently, she was selected by the UK's First Minister of State and Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, His Excellency William Hague, for her leadership skills to participate in the International Future Leadership Program held in London in October 2013.