UNU Council Members
Sheikha Abdulla Al-Misnad
President, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar
Professor Sheikha Abdulla Al-Misnad, a leading Qatari educator for nearly three decades, assumed the presidency of the University of Qatar in 2003. She previously served the university as Vice President for Research and Community Development (2000-2003), Head of the Department of Foundations of Education (1992-1995), and as a member of the University Council (1986-1989 and 1998-2004).
At the international level, Professor Al-Misnad is a member of several international bodies and delegations and was a contributing member of the Steering Committee of the Symposium at the UNESCO World Conference on Higher Education Applicability to the Arab States of the Gulf held in Doha in 1999.
Professor Al-Misnad received her undergraduate training at the University of Qatar where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Education (1977), and subsequently a Diploma in Education in 1978. She then enrolled in doctoral studies at the University of Durham in the United Kingdom where she was granted the Doctor of Philosophy in Education in 1984.
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