Shamma Suhail Al Mazrui

Shamma Suhail Al Mazrui

UAE Minister of Community Empowerment

Name in Arabic:
شما المزروعي
Date of Birth: 22 February 1994 ( 32 Year)
Nationality: Emirati
Country of Residence: United Arab Emirates

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Minister of Community Empowerment since February 7, 2023, United Arab Emirates.

She was appointed as Minister of State for Youth Affairs in February 2016, making her the youngest minister in the world, as she assumed this position at the age of 22 years. She is also the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Federal Youth Foundation and the UAE Special Olympics since January 2018. She has been Vice President of the Arab Youth Center since February 2017, President of the Emirates Youth Council since 2016, and Chair of the Board of Trustees of Zayed University since July 13, 2023.

She also serves as a member of the Council of Education and Human Resources of the Council of Ministers, a member of the Board of Directors of the Emirates Foundation, a member of the Fourth Industrial Revolution Committee, the Supreme Committee for the Year of Zayed 2018, the Supreme Committee for the Year of Giving 2017, and the Advisory Committee for the UAE Pavilion. United States during Expo 2020, and the National Elections Commission.

She worked in one of the sovereign wealth funds in Abu Dhabi, in addition to her work within the private and joint investment team at the “Abu Dhabi Investment Council” between 2015 and 2016, and she worked as a public policy analyst within the UAE mission to the “United Nations” during 2015. She was also a policy analyst in the office of “Presidency of the Council of Ministers” during 2014, a research analyst at the UAE Embassy in Washington during 2013, and a researcher in the field of education policies at “Tamkeen.”

She was the Communications and External Relations Officer at the Oxford Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies Forum in the United Kingdom, Alumni Relations Representative at the Blaftink School of Government in the UK, and a co-founder and member of the Renaissance Institute at New York University Abu Dhabi. She was also an associate member at the “San Francisco Conference.”

She won the “Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Excellence Award” and the “Kotos Future Leader Award”.

She holds a master’s degree in public policy in 2015 from the University of Oxford, an advanced diploma in multi-sector partnerships from New York University, and a bachelor’s degree in economics in 2014 from the same university.

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