Wife of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

She chaired the Board of Trustees of the Syrian Trust for Development between 2007 and 2024.

She founded many non-governmental organizations and institutions such as: the Syrian Fund for Integrated Rural Development (Al-Firdaws), the Mawrid Foundation to provide loans to women and activate the role of women in the economy, the Bedaya Foundation, the Syrian Association for Young Entrepreneurs (SYA), and the Syrian Trust for Development.

She worked in banking with Deutsche Bank and as a systems analyst at JP Morgan.

She received an honorary doctorate from La Sapienza University in Italy for her role in preserving the Syrian cultural heritage. The French fashion magazine Apple ranked her as the “First Lady of Elegance” in a poll it conducted in 2008. She received the “Gold Medal of the Presidency of the Italian Republic” for the year 2008 for her humanitarian activities, and won the “First Arab Lady Award” for the year 2008, presented by the “Arab Women Foundation” in cooperation with the “League of Arab States.”

She holds a Diploma in Computer Science, 1996, from King’s College, University of London, UK, and an MBA in Financial Analysis from Harvard University, USA.