Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Missned

Sheikha Moza bint Nasser Al Missned
Sheikha Mozah speaking at the Third Global Forum of the UN Alliance of Civilizations in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2010)
Consort to the Emir of Qatar
Tenure	27 June 1995 – 25 June 2013
Born	Al Khor Qatar
Spouse	Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Emir of Qatar (m. 1977)
Issue	Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamad Sheikh Khalifa bin Hamad Sheikha Hind bint Hamad
Father	Nasser bin Abdullah Al Missned
Religion	Sunni Islam

Styles of Sheikha Mozah
Reference style	Her Highness
Spoken style	Your Highness
Alternative style	Sheikha

Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned, (Arabic: موزا بنت ناصر المسند‎‎) (born in Al Khor, Qatar on August 8, 1959), the daughter of Nasser bin Abdullah Al Missned, is the consort of Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, former Emir of the State of Qatar. Since 1995, Sheikha Moza has led education and social reforms in Qatar and has founded national and international development projects. She has won global acclaim for her education work.

Moza is the daughter of Nasser bin Abdullah Al-Misned, a well known opposition activist and the former head of the Al Muhannada confederation of Bani Hajer. After being released from prison due to his political activities and as an act of defiance against the policies of the deposed former Emir Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani, Nasser bin Abdullah led the entire Al Muhannada clan into self-imposed exile to Kuwait in 1964. Nasser returned to Qatar with his immediate family in 1977, in the year which his daughter Mozah married Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, when he was heir apparent of Qatar. She received a BA in Sociology from the Qatar University in 1986, and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2003.

Sheikha Moza co-founded and chairs the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development(QF), which was set up in 1995.

Sheikha Mozah 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 chair of Sidra Medical and Research Center in Doha and the organisation "Your Link".