Queen of Jordan.

She is the Chair of the Board of Trustees of: “The National Council for Family Affairs”, “ The Jordan Children’s Museum”, “Jordan River Foundation”, “The Royal Society for Health Awareness”, and “Al-Aman Fund for the Future of Orphans”.

She is also a member of the Board of Trustees. The World Economic Forum, Chair of the Board of Directors of the Queen Rania Foundation for Education and Development, and Co-Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Arab Open University.

She was born in Kuwait to parents of Palestinian origin from the city of Tulkarm. She married King Abdullah II on June 10, 1993, and they had two sons; Crown Prince Hussein, Prince Hashem and two daughters; Princess Iman and Princess Salma .

Among her most prominent projects in the field of children’s and women’s rights is the “My School” project, which was launched in 2008 and aims to maintain the infrastructure and rehabilitate 500 Jordanian government schools in partnership between the public and private sectors, and the “Queen Rania Abdullah Award for Educational Excellence Association,” which was launched in 2005 based on its guidance. .

After becoming Queen of Jordan, she carried out activities related to national affairs, such as the environment, health, youth, and other affairs. As a global figure, she focused her energies and efforts in Jordan and abroad on a range of issues, the most important of which is education. In Jordan, her efforts focus on raising the level of excellence and quality of education provided to children and youth. At the global level, it is concerned with ensuring quality education for all, and calls on world leaders to adhere to their pledges to provide basic education for all.

She opened the “Queen Rania Al Abdullah Center for Educational and Information Technology” in 2001, the “Queen Rania Academy for Teacher Training” in 2009, launched the “Queen Rania Al Abdullah Award for Distinguished Teacher” in 2006, and the “Queen Rania Al Abdullah Award for Distinguished Principal” in 2008, in addition to Providing a number of study and training scholarships for Jordanian students and workers, in the fields of management, marketing, design, business administration, psychology, engineering, law, and others, in cooperation with a number of universities around the world.

Under the guidance of Queen Rania, in 1998, the Jordan River Foundation launched the “Child Safety” program, with the aim of identifying immediate needs for the protection of children exposed to abuse and adopting a long-term campaign to raise community awareness about violence against children. During August 2000, Raa worked to establish “Dar Al-Aman” to improve the lives of Jordanian families. It is considered the first center of its kind in the region, and provides protection and rehabilitation for abused and exploited children, in addition to providing counseling to families.

She also established the “Al-Aman Fund for the Future of Orphans” in 2006, with the aim of caring for beneficiary young men and women orphans in Jordan, to help them secure their future. She also established and headed the first interactive children's museum in Jordan, which was opened on May 23, 2007. It aims to create an educational environment for interactive experiences that have the ability to encourage and enhance lifelong learning among children and their families.

In November 2007, due to Queen Rania’s efforts in child care, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) invited her to join the organization’s Global Humanitarian Leadership Initiative, where she worked alongside senior world leaders such as former South African President Nelson Mandela, with the aim of achieving Millennium Development Goals that relate directly to children's health, education and well-being. In August 2009, she became honorary president of the United Nations Initiative for Girls' Education, and participates in international conferences and meetings, such as the Clinton Global Initiative and the World Economic Forum.

In 2009, Queen Rania was chosen as founder and co-chair of the “One Goal” campaign, which she launched in London with the support of the Education for All Initiative and FIFA. The campaign aims to provide 75 million opportunities for children who have been deprived of education in the poorest countries in the world. In 2012, the Secretary-General of the United Nations chose her as a member of the high-level advisory committee that will provide advice on the post-2015 global development agenda, which is the date set for achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

She received several awards, the most important of which are: the “Walter Rathenau Award” from the “Walter Rathenau Foundation” in Germany for her efforts for peace and encouraging dialogue and understanding between civilizations, the “James C. Morgan Humanitarian Award” in the United States of America, and the “Arab Knight of Giving Award” from She was accepted by the “Arab Giving Forum” in the United Arab Emirates, the “North/South Award” in Portugal, and the “YouTube Creativity Award”, and Forbes magazine included her among the list of the 100 most powerful women in the world for the years 2006, 2009, 2010, and 2011.

She wrote a number of children’s stories, one of which is entitled “Salma and Laila,” which is inspired by a true story that she lived in her childhood, in addition to other stories: “Heba Al-Malik,” “Maha Al-Jabiliya,” and “Sandwich Exchange.”

She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Computers and Information from the American University in Cairo, and a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Administrative Sciences from the Department of Postgraduate Business Studies at the University of Paris, and studied at the British School in Kuwait.