Ms. Lubna Qassim

Lubna Qassim is at present the Director of Economic Legislations at the Ministry of Economy to establish and head this department. Her responsibilities in summary include advising and working mainly on all the economic legislations of the UAE and advise various legal and public sector reform. Formerly, she was the Executive Director of the Legal and Regulatory Affairs department at the Dubai Economic Council, with responsibility to establish the legal and regulatory affairs department and monitor and handle the legal and regulatory matters affecting the Emirate of Dubai’s economy.

She, at present, is working on the legislative reforms. She has advised both the local and federal government on numerous local and federal economic legislations.

Before her current appointment, she worked for the largest global law firm in the world, Clifford Chance in their Dubai and London offices and was also a consultant to the World Bank.

Lubna graduated from Brunel University, England with an Honours Degree in Law and gained a Distinction Postgraduate Degree on Law from Leeds University, England. She is also the first to have successfully completed the Legal Practice Course, the English Solicitor’s exams, with a distinction. Lubna is also an advocate with the rights of audience before the UAE courts. She is also the first UAE national to have worked at the House of Lords, Parliament of the UK.

She is a valued asset being a multi-linguist; she speaks fluently in five languages and at present learning Mandarin.