Sheikha Lubna bint Khalid bin Sultan Al-Qassimi was the first woman to hold a ministerial post in the UAE (Minister of Economy from 2004-2008), going on to hold a further three ministerial posts (Minister of Foreign Trade (2008-2013), Minister of International Cooperation and Development (2013-2016), and being the UAE’s first Minister of State for Tolerance (2016-17)). In 2000, she founded Tejari, the Middle East’s first business-to-business online marketplace which now has franchises in Kuwait, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria. She was also President of Zayed University between 2014-18.