page_title: Moza bint Nasser
section_title: Areas of work
hierarchical_section_title: Moza bint Nasser / Areas of work
caption_attribution_description: English: President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama pose for a photo during a reception at the Metropolitan Museum in New York with Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani and his second wife, Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned.
context_page_description: Sheikha Moza bint Nasser is the consort of Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, former Emir of the State of Qatar.
context_section_description: Moza co-founded and chairs the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development (QF), which was set up in 1995.
  Moza also acted as chairperson of Silatech since 2008, chairperson of the Arab Democracy Foundation, and president of the Supreme Council for Family Affairs since 1998. She has been vice-president of the Supreme Education Council since 2002 and was UNESCO's Special Envoy for Basic and Higher Education in 2003. Currently, she serves as a member of the Board of Overseers for Weill Cornell Medical College. Besides this, she is the chairperson of Sidra Medical and Research Center, a high-tech women's and children's hospital in Doha. She also endowed this medical center with $7.9 billion.
  Unlike many other monarchical wives in the Middle East, Moza has been a high-profile figure in her nation's politics and society, actively involved in Qatar's government. She was a driving force behind Education City and Al Jazeera Children's Channel. She is the owner of Le Tanneur, a French leather-goods manufacturer. Additionally, she has been named as one of Forbes' 100 Most Powerful Women at #75.
  As the public consort of the emir, she has represented Qatar alongside her husband and on her own at many international events, including state visits and royal weddings. She has become known for her personal style, customising haute couture designs to fit Qatari modesty rules.
  She works with the UN to support global education and has been selected as a UN Advocate for the Sustainable Development Goals.
  Moza initiated the World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH), a forum for innovative solutions to international health challenges.
  Fashion Trust Arabia (FTA), launched in September 2018 under the patronage of Moza bint Nasser as Honorary Chair and co-Chaired by Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad Al-Thani and Tania Fares (Founder of Fashion Trust), is an initiative offering financial and business support to womenswear designers.
  As summarized by the New York Times in 2018, "Sheikha Moza is the object of lurid, often misogynistic insults in the Saudi, Emirati and Egyptian media, where she is portrayed as a power-hungry manipulator of weak men.
caption: Sheikha Moza with her husband at the White House in Washington, D.C.. From left to right: Sheikha Moza, Michelle Obama, the US First Lady, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, and Barack Obama, the US President.
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