Soraya is an executive advisor, a geopolitical expert and an experienced managing director with demonstrated history in providing strategic and operational support for key institutions (private and public sectors) and in developing successful partnership between various stakeholders such as business leaders, governments and international organisations.

She is Young Global leader of the World Economic Forum, the most exclusive private social network in the world, alongside remarkable group of rising stars from politics, business, civil society and academia.

Soraya currently advises multinational and governmental leaders in communication and influence, business diplomacy, economical attractiveness and strategic development. Soraya is a successful author, published by the famous French editor L’Harmattan. Her first book “Qatarisme” was a best-selling book in 2013. She published in 2015 with Dr. Nurdin a strategic book about the emerging multinationals, the real 21st century game changers. Her last book “Dubai 5.0 The New Model”, prefaced by the Chairman of the Cercle des Economistes (Jean Hervé Lorenzi) , is an amazing study of Dubai through its History, its macroeconomy, its Government and all the strategies used and applied to reach such power nowadays.

Soraya held various corporate positions: serving as the Group Communication Director of the first private group in Algeria and in the top 5 in African private sector, and analyst at the French Institute of International Relations. Soraya has received international distinctions and recognitions: she is Rising Talent 2016 of the Women’s Forum for Economy and Society, an initiative that aims at distinguishing highly talented young women who are on their way to becoming influential figures in our economies and societies, and a laureate of Choiseul 100 Africa, an independent study that identifies and ranks the young African leaders of 40-year old and below who will play a major role in the continent’s economic development in the near future.

Soraya is a graduate of French University in Paris and her qualifications include a master degree in Communication and public relations, a MBA in international affairs, and PhD in international relations . She has lived in 7 countries and speaks fluently French, Arabic, German and English.

Soraya is also bord member of the Orchestre Philharmonique International de Paris.