Raya is an award winning, multilingual legal advisor with over 15 years of experience. She founded a boutique legal consultancy in 2012 which focuses on the Middle East market. She advises SME’s, multinationals and governmental companies based in the GCC region and clients across US, and Europe on a broad range of corporate and commercial matters. Raya regularly speaks at global conferences and roundtables and active in various women development initiatives. She is the Founder and Chair of the Women Lawyers Group-Middle East. She served as a committee member at the International Women Business Group in Abu Dhabi. In 2017 she received the award “Legal Consultant” of the Year, by the Arab Woman Awards. Raya was appointed as an advisor for the Middle East, for the Diplomatic World Institute (Brussels) and is currently serving as an advisory board member at the IWBD, an initiative of On-Board Women.
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