Sheikha Haya Al Khalifa

Haya is the founder of Haya Rashed AL Khalifa Law Firm. She was the vice chairwoman of the Arbitration Committee/International Bar Association and the first Bahraini woman Ambassador to France and its nonresident Ambassador to Belgium, Switzerland and Spain. She is also Bahrain's permanent delegate to UNESCO.

She has been elected as President of the 61st Session of the U.N in 2006/2007. General Assembly, becoming the third woman to hold the position. She received several notable awards, including the U.N. Millennium Development Goals Special Award, the Path to Peace Award and the Social Creativity Award from the Arab Thought Foundation. In 2018 Haya was honored to be elected as president of the world heritage committee at the UNESCO.

Currently Shaikha Haya is the Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the Bahrain Chamber for Dispute Resolution since 2010. She is also a member of the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration as of January 2018 for two years.

• Banking
• Capital markets: Equity
• Financial services regulatory
• Project finance
• Restructuring and insolvency

• Banking
• Oil and gas
• Real estate
• Social infrastructure
• Tech and telecoms
• Natural resources

• Chairperson of the Board of Trustees - Bahrain Chamber for Dispute Resolution BCDRsince 2010.
• Chairperson ICC Bahrain National Committee 2012.
• Board Member in AAA “ Commencing on 2009 and Ending 2019”
• Member of Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration as of January 2018

• Bachelor of Law (Kuwait, 1974).
• Courses (DESUP) in international Public Law (Droit International Public)
• (Des organization international ET Universitie de Paris, Sorbonne, France,1977).
• Diploma in Civil Private Law , 1986 
• Diploma in Comparative Law
• University of Ain Chams , Egypt (DEA) , 1988