Sheikha Hanadi has come a long way since her days as a lecturing assistant in the Economics Department of Qatar University. She is now considered integral to Qatari banking and real estate having founded Qatar Ladies Investment Company, now known as Amwal, in 1998, the first company to receive a licence for investment banking in Qatar. A special advisor to Standard Chartered Bank, she is also CEO of the Al Waab City Real Estate development project and deputy CEO of Nasser Bin Khaled Al Thani & Sons Group.