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Noor Al Malki Al Jehani
Her Highness Noor Al Malki Al Jehani (Arabic: نور المالكي الجهني, born 1961) is a Qatari politician, policy advisor, researcher, educator, individual rights advocate and leading expert on Arab families. She is currently the Executive Director of the Doha International Family Institute, a member institution of the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development and an independent expert.

Her work in the past has contributed to the first National Development Strategy of the State of Qatar, including the founding of the Qatar National Human Rights Committee and working with the Committee from 2002 to 2009. She became the first woman from the Gulf region to be elected to the Board of Trustees of the United Nations Fund on Human Trafficking and represented the Qatari delegation at the ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. She specializes in designing evidence-based policies to tackle human rights issues with a focus on women’s rights and Arab families.

Early Life and Education
Noor Al Malki Al Jehani was born in Doha, Qatar. In 1984, she received a Bachelor of Arts in Humanities from Qatar University and has received training in gender issues, women’s rights and children rights.

In an interview with “Women of Qatar," an online platform that highlights the achievements of Qatari women, Al Jehani explained what motivated her choice of career : "“I have always had a keen interest in social issues, especially issues related to women. And I think my interest started as a result of the Qatar that I grew up in, which is completely different from the Qatar we have today.”"

Career
Prior to joining the Doha International Family Institute (DIFI) in 2012, she was the Secretary General of the Supreme Council for Family Affairs of the State of Qatar. She went on to develop her career in highlighting social issues pertaining to women and families in the Arab region. She represented the State of Qatar in the Arab Women Committee of the Arab League and the Women Committee of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia. From 2011-2016, she was part of the drafting of Qatar’s first national development strategy by being the chair of the drafting committee of the strategy on family cohesion and women’s empowerment. In 2015, her leadership at the DIFI led to the organization signing a memorandum of understanding with the United Nations Population Fund in order to facilitate the exchange of information and further prioritization of family policymaking.

In an effort to boost research towards family issues, Al Jehani and her colleagues promulgated an annual research grant called OSRA(Arab."family") in collaboration with the Qatar National Research Fund. The grant offers up to $50,000 on proposals related to the research of Arab families. In 2018, DIFI financed and launched a book entitled Arab Family Studies: Critical Reviews. The book compiles the work of 28 scholars on the study of Arab families. In the foreword of the book, she illuminated the lack of exploration in the Arab family: “despite the centrality of the family in the Arab world and all the rhetoric about the importance of the family, research on the family remains underdeveloped.”

List of Publications
Al Jehani's writing and research mainly focuses on human rights and women’s rights that were presented to National Human Rights Comission, Supreme Commity on Family Affairs to enact policies, strategies and legislation on human rights issues.