Fatima Al Jaber’s entrepreneurial history Fatima Al Jaber is one the top most influential women entrepreneurs in United Arab Emirates (Augsburg, 2009). She has stood against the UAE’s unfavourable cultural background for women entrepreneurs and professionals. Al Jaber has been involved in construction and industry business ventures. She is currently the chief operating officer at Al Jaber Group, which is one of the successful companies in United Arab Emirates. The foundation of her entrepreneurial excellence started back at UAE University, where she graduated in 1987 with a Bachelors Degree in Architectural Engineering. Since 1988, she has worked in Government of Abu Dhabi at both technical and management levels. At one time, she held a position of an assistant technical secretary at public works in the Abu Dhabi Municipality. Al Jaber was later promoted to the Building projects department at Abu Dhabi Municipality. There, she served as an assistant secretary. Her working history shows that she is an influential person in United Arab Emirates (Augsburg, 2009). In the year 2007, the Arab Forbes voted her the seventh most influential businessperson in the entire Arab region. Subsequently, in 2008 she was voted the most influential woman in UAE by the MEED. During the same year, she doubled as the businessperson of the year according to the Arabian Business. In the year 2009, she was voted as the Industry personality. Al Jaber serves in various positions such as being a board member in different companies. She is the chairperson of the Abu Dhabi Business women Council that seeks to bring together the women executive in the UAE (Augsburg, 2009). Al Jaber has been involved in business conferences as a speaker across the UAE and the Arab world at large. She encourages women to seize all opportunities in government jobs, education, and the establishment of businesses. In the year 2009, her efforts earned her a prize and she was elected as board of directors for the Abu Dhabi Chambers of Commerce. Based on her life history, it is apparent that Jaber has the best entrepreneurial qualities. Why I choose Al Jaber Al Jaber like any ordinary woman in UAE faced the challenges of the unfavourable cultures and practices (Augsburg, 2009). She is a great entrepreneur and role model to many in the UAE and around the world. The various positions she has held in different organizations and the successful projects she has been in charge of demonstrate her entrepreneurial skills. She has worked hard from the time she schooled at the University. She managed to accomplish the architectural engineering course. Normally, such professions belong to the men and the other hindering factor was the negative norms and cultures in the UAE, which discriminates against women. In the UAE, women are not favoured in organization as well as at the workplace. Women find it difficult to be leaders, managers and even attaining high education levels. However, Al Jaber showed that it is possible to overcome all the above challenges. She has managed to hold various management and leadership positions in various organizations. Al Jaber has demonstrated several qualities. The qualities have been illustrated below. Representative of an organization As an entrepreneur, Al