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<ref></ref>'''Dr. Rola A. Dashti''' a leading Kuwaiti economist and women’s rights activist, held a senior policy making positions in Kuwait, as Minister for Planning and development and Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs (2012-2014). As head of planning team, lead the drive for the adoption of government 4-years program and development plans focusing on social prosperity and security, reforming and modernizing the economy, and building institutional excellence. During her term, she advocated strengthening Kuwait relationship with international organizations, and have signed agreement with UNDP for joining the JPO program. Represented Kuwait at ECOSOC 2013 Substantive Session in Geneva, and High-level Meetings of the 68th Session of the General Assembly on disability and development.
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Prior to joining the government, Dr. Dashti was one of four women in the history of Kuwait to be elected to parliament. She served as member of Kuwait parliament (2009-2012), chaired the social affairs, labor and health committee and was a member of finance, budgetary, and women committees. She advocated for health and economic reform, and participated in drafting several laws pertaining to women rights and empowerment, women housing fund, advancing the role of small and medium business in the economy, privatization law, private sector labor law, and amending social security law. Dr. Dashti was also a chairperson and member of several parliamentarian investigation committees.
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'''Rola Abdulla Dashti''' ({{lang-ar|رولا عبدالله علي حاجيه دشتي}}, born 1964<ref name=VOA>{{cite news |first=Challiss |last=McDonough |url=http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2006-06/2006-06-28-voa53.cfm |publisher=[[Voice of America]] |title=Kuwaiti Women Appear on Political Landscape This Election |date=2006-06-28 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080406001333/http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2006-06/2006-06-28-voa53.cfm |archivedate=2008-04-06 |url-status=dead }}</ref>) is a [[Kuwait]]i economist and business executive and former politician and minister. Dashti lobbied for the May 2005 decree permitting [[Women in Arab societies|Kuwaiti women]] to run for parliamentary elections for the first time and was one of the first female MPs elected to the [[National Assembly of Kuwait|Kuwaiti parliament]]. She subsequently served as minister of state planning and development affairs and State Assembly affairs.


==Education==
==Education==
Dashti earned a bachelor's degree from [[California State University, Chico]] in 1984, a master's degree from [[California State University, Sacramento]] in 1985, and a Ph.D. in population dynamics from [[Johns Hopkins University]] in 1993, with a dissertation on the dynamics of teacher supply in Kuwait.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/commencement1993#page/68/mode/2up 1993 Commencement], Johns Hopkins University, p.&nbsp;86.</ref>
Dr. Dashti holds a Doctorate of Philosophy in Population Dynamics from Johns Hopkins University-Baltimore, a Master degree in Economics and Finance from California State University-Sacramento, and a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture Economics from California State University-Chico. Attended executive programs at Harvard Kennedy School. Born in 1964, speaks fluent Arabic and English. She has lectured, conducted and managed research in development and applied economics particularly in regard to the country's recent quest for modernizing its economic, financial, and social processes.


==Career==
==Career==
Dashti is CEO of FARO International, a financial services consultancy,<ref name=WEF>{{cite web |url=https://www.weforum.org/agenda/authors/rola-dashti |title=Authors: Rola Dashti |publisher=[[World Economic Forum]] |accessdate=2017-03-15 }}</ref><ref name=Ms>{{cite news |url=http://www.msmagazine.com/june03/kuwaiti_women.asp |title=Rise Up Kuwaiti Women 2007 |newspaper=[[Ms. magazine]] |date=Summer 2003 |accessdate=2017-03-15 }}</ref> and a board member of Damac Kuwaiti Holding Co.<ref name=KP/>
During the last 30 years of her professional career, Dr. Dashti has worked in both the public and private sectors. Liaising and networking with a range of stakeholders including government, non-state actors, and private sectors. She has lectured, conducted and managed research in development and applied economics particularly in regard to the Arab region quest for modernizing its economic, financial, and social processes. Held key positions in R&D institutions such as the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (Manager, Economics Department), and worked for major local and international financial and development institutions (Senior Economist at the National Bank of Kuwait, Director of Investment at Al-Ahlia Investment company, and consultant to the World Bank). Managed and was in charge of all the contracts signed on behalf of the government of Kuwait for the Emergency and Reconstruction Program during the invasion-to-post liberation period (1990/1991). Currently, heads an international consultancy firm in Kuwait focusing on Public Private Partnership, privatization, activation of SMEs, and corporate governance.


Following the [[Iraqi invasion of Kuwait]] that took place in 1990–1991, Dashti managed emergency reconstruction contracts for the State of Kuwait<ref name=Leaders>{{cite web |url=http://www.zu.ac.ae/leadership2006/roladashti.aspx |title=Women as Global Leaders: Communities in Transition. Dr. Rola Dashti: Chairperson, Kuwait Economic Society |publisher=[[Zayed University]] |year=2006 |accessdate=2017-03-15 }}</ref> and then participated in the effort to bring about the release of Kuwaiti prisoners held by [[Iraq]].<ref name=hayatouki>{{cite news |first=Mohamed |last=Omran |url=http://hayatouki.com/portraits/content/1874039-%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7-%D8%B9%D8%A8%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D9%87-%D8%AF%D8%B4%D8%AA%D9%8A-%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B4%D8%B7%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%82%D8%AA%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%B7%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%AA-%D8%A8%D8%AD%D9%82%D9%88%D9%82-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%A3%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A9 |title=رولا عبد الله دشتي .. ناشطة اقتصادية طالبت بحقوق المرأة السياسية |newspaper=Hayatouki |date=4 April 2014 |language=Arabic }}</ref> She was the first woman elected president of the Kuwait Economic Society<ref name=kec/><ref>{{cite book |contribution=Acknowledgements |editor1-first=Barbara |editor1-last=Ibrahim |editor2-first=Dina H. |editor2-last=Sherif |title=From Charity to Social Change: Trends in Arab Philanthropy |location=Cairo |publisher=American University in Cairo |year=2008 |isbn=9781936190614 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P3ahODkMBVAC&pg=PR7 |page=viii }}</ref><ref name=Monitor>{{cite news |first= Jamie |last=Etheridge |url=http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0519/p07s02-wome.html |title=Progress on political rights for Kuwaiti women |newspaper=[[Christian Science Monitor]] |date=2005-05-19 }}</ref> and the first woman ever elected to head a Kuwaiti professional association<ref name=Wilson>{{cite web |url=https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/rola-dashti-appointed-to-kuwaiti-cabinet |title=Rola Dashti appointed to Kuwaiti Cabinet |publisher=[[Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars]] |date=2012-07-20 |accessdate=2017-03-14 }}</ref>
A regular contributor to regional and international policy forums on global governance, economic development and integration, democratization and women empowerment in the MENA region. Served as chairperson for the Arab Planning Institute (non-profit regional organization whose primary mission is to advance the cause of economic and social development in the Arab countries), and served as the chairperson for World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Agenda Council for MENA region, and member of advisory panel for the World Bank on Middle East Political and Economic transition, and member of advisory council for Arab Human Development Report for 2009 (Human Security in the Arab World), served as a member of higher supreme council for planning and development in Kuwait, served as a member of the executive committee of Young Arab Leaders-Kuwait chapter (an independent membership network of empowered Arab men and women who have seen the power of action in their own lives and experienced unprecedented levels of success for their age and are eager to trigger change in the world around them through spreading modern leadership values and fostering the development of future Arab leaders and help bridge the awareness gap between the Arab region and the rest of the world).


Dashti lobbied for the May 2005 decree permitting Kuwaiti women to vote and to run for parliamentary election.<ref name=Ms/><ref name=Leaders/><ref name=kec/><ref name=Monitor/><ref name=Wilson/> She was one of 28 female candidates in the [[2006 Kuwaiti parliamentary election|2006 parliamentary election]], the first open to women.<ref name=VOA/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vitalvoices.org/DesktopDefault.aspx?page_id=14 |publisher=Vital Voices |title=Global Advisory Council Members |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090620064643/http://www.vitalvoices.org/DesktopDefault.aspx?page_id=14 |archivedate=2009-06-20 }}</ref> In 2006 and 2008 she did not win election; in May 2009 she was one of the first four women elected to the Kuwaiti Parliament.<ref name=KP>{{cite web |url=http://www.kuwaitpolitics.org/DataPage2107.htm |title=رولا عبدالله علي حاجيه دشتي : Rola Dashti |website=Kuwait Politics.org |language=Arabic |accessdate=2017-03-15}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mofa.gov.kw/Ar/embassies/Canada/About-Kuwait/Pages/Kuwait-Woman.aspx |title=About Kuwait: The Role Woman in Kuwait |publisher=Government of Kuwait, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Embassy of Kuwait in Canada |year=2012 |accessdate=2017-03-15 }}</ref>
Believes that motivated and courageous individual can facilitate change, even in an environment that seems resistant to transformation. Recognized as a leading activist and a longtime champion of women’s rights and gender equality, advocated and lobbied for the May 2005 decree allowing Kuwaiti women to vote and run for parliamentary elections for the first time. Dr. Dashti was the first woman to file her papers at the election department, when the registration opened, and was herself a candidate in the 2006 parliamentary election. In the 2009 parliamentary elections, she and three other women won seats to become the first women to enter the Kuwaiti parliament setting the stage to deepening the role of women in politics and decision making.


In parliament, Dashti chaired the social affairs, labor, and health committee.<ref>{{cite web|title=Interview with Dr. Rola Dashti, Member of the Kuwaiti Parliament|publisher=[[Carnegie Endowment for International Peace]]|date=2010-03-09
Concerned with humanitarian issues since undergraduate years, was involved with the International Red Cross in Lebanon in 1982, assisting refugee families from the South. Participated in several activities to uplift rural Yemeni women from poverty. Also, worked with the Prisoner of War (POW) organization for missing Kuwaitis captured during the Iraqi invasion and held in Iraq. Principle role was to keep the issue of the POW’s alive on a national and international level till their fate is known.
|url=http://carnegieendowment.org/2010/03/09/interview-with-dr.-rola-dashti-member-of-kuwaiti-parliament/6bft |accessdate=2011-11-06}}</ref> In October 2011, she was also appointed to the budget committee and the committee for responding to the [[Emir of Kuwait|Emir]]'s speech.<ref>{{cite web|title=Kuwaiti parliament selects permanent, short-term cmtes |publisher=[[Kuwait News Agency]] |date=2011-10-25 |url= http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2198856&Language=en |accessdate=2011-11-06}}</ref>


Dashti was not reelected in 2012.<ref name=KP/> She was subsequently the only woman appointed to the new Kuwaiti cabinet, as state minister for planning and development and state minister for National Assembly affairs;<ref name=WEF/><ref name=Wilson/><ref name=Rai>{{cite news |url=http://www.alraimedia.com/ar/article/omma/2016/09/21/708972/nr/kuwait |title=بورتريه / رولا الغائبة ... عندما تمطر الذكريات "صداماً" ودموعاً ! |newspaper=[[Al Rai (Kuwaiti newspaper)|Al Rai]] |date=21 September 2016 |language=Arabic }}</ref> she was reappointed that December.<ref name=KP/>
As a leading social activist in the MENA region advocating democratic reform and fighting for gender equity and increasing role for women in public life. Contributed to the efforts towards energizing civil society institutions to turn them into a major driving force behind economic, social, and political reform. Developing work in these institutions also became one of her focus of interest after her election as chairperson of Kuwait Economic Society, a professional independent non-governmental organization with a mission to advocate competitive and transparent economic reform policies, empower a generation of professionals and entrepreneurs, and build informed knowledgeable community. Founded the Women Participation Organization, an independent non-govermental organization created to encourage women engagement in public life and promote their appointment to decision making position. Elected as Secretary General for Al-Fatat Club, a women sports club with a mission to invest and train young girls in different sport games and encourage them to participate in Olympics and International tournaments. Served as board member of Kuwait national competitiveness committee, served as executive board member for Foundation for the Future(an independent, multilateral, not for profit organization whose primary mission is to promote democracy and human rights through strengthening CSOs in the Broader Middle East and North Africa), and served as executive member of women committee representing Arab countries at International Parliamentarian Union(IPU). Dr. Dashti has been a resounding voice in the Vital Voices Global Leadership Network since its earliest days, acting on its Global Advisory Council. Currently, serves as executive board member for The Pan-Arab Women Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Violence against Women, and also a board member of Arab Women Parliamentarians Network for Equality (Ra’edat), a regional parliamentary network that advocates gender equality and the fair participation of women in policy making in the Arab States region.


Dashti has also served as Manager of Economics at the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research and as an economist for the Kuwait National Bank, and has been a consultant to the [[World Bank]]. She is on the Executive Committee of the Kuwait chapter of Young Arab Leaders.<ref name=Wilson/> She chaired the 2015–2016 [[World Economic Forum]] Global Agenda Council on the Middle East and North Africa.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www3.weforum.org/docs/Media/AM17/Accelerating_Reforms_MENA_.pdf |title=Accelerating Economic Reforms in the Middle East and North Africa: A Private-Sector Perspective |publisher=Middle East and North Africa Regional Business Council, World Economic Forum |date=January 2017 }}</ref>
Rola Dashti was listed among the world's 100 most influential Arabs for 2007<ref>[http://www.arabianbusiness.com/power100/2007/profile/586 Power 100, The World's Most Influential Arabs, Rank List 2007 - ArabianBusiness.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> and 2008.<ref>[http://www.arabianbusiness.com/power100/profile/524?clr=2 Power 100, The World's Most Influential Arabs, Rank List 2008 - ArabianBusiness.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> She was the first woman elected to chair the Kuwaiti Economic Society, which was founded in 1970.<ref name="vitalvoices.org"/>.


==Awards==
==Honors==
In 2005, Dashti won The [[Hussein of Jordan|King Hussein]] Humanitarian Award.<ref name=kec>{{cite web |url=http://www.kesoc.org/kes/bod/ |publisher=Kuwait Economic Society |title=About Board of Directors |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090620062348/http://www.kesoc.org/kes/bod/ |archivedate=2009-06-20 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kinghusseinfoundation.org/index.php?pager=end&task=view&type=content&pageid=30|title=King Hussein Leadership Prize|publisher=King Hussein Foundation}}</ref> She was listed by ''[[Arabian Business]]'' among their 100 most influential Arabs for 2007<ref>[http://www.arabianbusiness.com/100-most-powerful-arabs-2007-147830.html Power 100, The World's Most Influential Arabs, Rank List 2007 - ArabianBusiness.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> and 2008.<ref>[http://www.arabianbusiness.com/power100/profile/524?clr=2 Power 100, The World's Most Influential Arabs, Rank List 2008 - ArabianBusiness.com<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080506044123/http://www.arabianbusiness.com/power100/profile/524?clr=2 |date=2008-05-06 }}</ref>
Dr. Dashti work received international recognition, awards and honors from various leading organizations and institutions across the world.


In 2010, she won the [[North–South Prize]] alongside [[Mikhail Gorbachev]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/nscentre/winners_nsp_EN.asp |title=The North South Prize of the Council of Europe |publisher=[[North-South Centre]], [[Council of Europe]] |year=2014 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140711231824/http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/nscentre/winners_nsp_EN.asp |archivedate=2014-07-11 }}</ref>
In 2005, Rola Dashti was the winner of The [[King Hussein Humanitarian Award]]<ref name=kec/> and has been involved in several volunteering activities since her undergraduate years, where she worked with the [[International Red Cross]] in Lebanon to assist refugee families from the south in 1982. She has also been involved in various activities for the economic empowerment of women in the Republic of Yemen. Dashti is an activist in the MENA region advocating democratic reform, fighting for gender equity and increasing the role of women in public life.


==Personal life==
In 2009, she won the parliamentary election, ranking the seventh place in her political district. In the Parliament she currently chairs the social affairs, labor, and health committee.
Dashti is from a [[Shia Islam|Shi'ite Muslim]] family of [['Ajam of Kuwait|Iranian ancestry]] and has 23 siblings.<ref name=VOA/> Her father, Abdullah Ali Dashti, also served in the Kuwaiti parliament;<ref name=VOA/> her mother is [[Lebanon|Lebanese]].<ref name=hayatouki/><ref name=Rai/>
<ref>{{cite web
|title=Interview with Dr. Rola Dashti, Member of the Kuwaiti Parliament
|publisher=[[Carnegie Endowment for International Peace]]
|date=2010-03-09
|url= http://carnegieendowment.org/2010/03/09/interview-with-dr.-rola-dashti-member-of-kuwaiti-parliament/6bft
|accessdate=2011-11-06}}</ref>

In 2010, she received the Council of Europe's [[North–South Prize]]<ref>[http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/nscentre/ns_prize_EN.asp? Council of Europe North South Prize]</ref> together with Mr [[Mikhail Gorbachev]]. The prize was presented by Portuguese President [[Aníbal Cavaco Silva]] at a ceremony in the Portuguese Senate Room at the National Parliament.

In October 2011, she was also appointed to the budget committee and the "responding to the Amir's speech" committee.
<ref>{{cite web
|title=Kuwaiti parliament selects permanent, short-term cmtes
|publisher=[[Kuwaiti News Agency]] (KUNA)
|date=2011-10-25
|url= http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2198856&Language=en
|accessdate=2011-11-06}}</ref>


==Footnotes==
==Footnotes==
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==References==
==Further reading==
*{{cite book |first=Joshua |last=Muravchik |authorlink=Joshua Muravchik |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P-0OJqaeDsUC&q=The+Feminist+Kuwait+Rola+Dashti |title=The Next Founders: Voices of Democracy in the Middle East |location=New York |publisher=Encounter |year=2009 |isbn=9781594032325 |contribution=The Feminist. Kuwait: Rola Dashti |pages=249–84 }}
Tetreault, Mary Ann. "[http://www.scribd.com/doc/15572805/Advice-and-Dissent-in-Kuwait Advice and Dissent in Kuwait]." Middle East Report 226 (2003):36-39.
* {{cite journal |first=Mary Ann |last=Tétreault |title=Advice and Dissent in Kuwait |journal=Middle East Report |volume=226 |date=Spring 2003 |issue=226 |pages=36–39 |doi=10.2307/1559281

|jstor=1559281 }}
Etheridge, Jamie. "Progress on Political Rights for Kuwaiti Women." Christian Science Monitor (2005): 7.
*{{cite journal |first1= Mary Ann |last1=Tétreault |first2=Katherine |last2=Meyer |first3=Helen |last3=Rizzo |title=Women's Rights in the Middle East: A Longitudinal Study of Kuwait |journal=International Political Sociology |volume=3 |issue=2 |year=2009 |pages=18–237 |doi=10.1111/j.1749-5687.2009.00072.x }}


==External links==
==External links==
* [http://www.zu.ac.ae/leadership2006/roladashti.aspx Women as Global Leaders]
* [http://www.mideastliberty.org/tabid/314/AuthorID/140/Default.aspx Center for Liberty in the Middle East]
* [http://www.mideastliberty.org/tabid/314/AuthorID/140/Default.aspx Center for Liberty in the Middle East]

* [http://www.kesoc.org/kes/bod/ Kuwait Economic Society - About Board of Directors]
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* [http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/nscentre/ns_prize_EN.asp? Council of Europe North South Prize]


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Latest revision as of 23:06, 13 December 2023

Rola Dashti
رولا عبدالله علي حاجيه دشتي
Born
Rola Abdulla Dashti

1964
NationalityKuwaiti
Alma materCalifornia State University, Chico, California State University, Sacramento, Johns Hopkins University
Occupation(s)Academic, economist, business executive and former politician and minister

Rola Abdulla Dashti (Arabic: رولا عبدالله علي حاجيه دشتي, born 1964[1]) is a Kuwaiti economist and business executive and former politician and minister. Dashti lobbied for the May 2005 decree permitting Kuwaiti women to run for parliamentary elections for the first time and was one of the first female MPs elected to the Kuwaiti parliament. She subsequently served as minister of state planning and development affairs and State Assembly affairs.

Education[edit]

Dashti earned a bachelor's degree from California State University, Chico in 1984, a master's degree from California State University, Sacramento in 1985, and a Ph.D. in population dynamics from Johns Hopkins University in 1993, with a dissertation on the dynamics of teacher supply in Kuwait.[2]

Career[edit]

Dashti is CEO of FARO International, a financial services consultancy,[3][4] and a board member of Damac Kuwaiti Holding Co.[5]

Following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait that took place in 1990–1991, Dashti managed emergency reconstruction contracts for the State of Kuwait[6] and then participated in the effort to bring about the release of Kuwaiti prisoners held by Iraq.[7] She was the first woman elected president of the Kuwait Economic Society[8][9][10] and the first woman ever elected to head a Kuwaiti professional association[11]

Dashti lobbied for the May 2005 decree permitting Kuwaiti women to vote and to run for parliamentary election.[4][6][8][10][11] She was one of 28 female candidates in the 2006 parliamentary election, the first open to women.[1][12] In 2006 and 2008 she did not win election; in May 2009 she was one of the first four women elected to the Kuwaiti Parliament.[5][13]

In parliament, Dashti chaired the social affairs, labor, and health committee.[14] In October 2011, she was also appointed to the budget committee and the committee for responding to the Emir's speech.[15]

Dashti was not reelected in 2012.[5] She was subsequently the only woman appointed to the new Kuwaiti cabinet, as state minister for planning and development and state minister for National Assembly affairs;[3][11][16] she was reappointed that December.[5]

Dashti has also served as Manager of Economics at the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research and as an economist for the Kuwait National Bank, and has been a consultant to the World Bank. She is on the Executive Committee of the Kuwait chapter of Young Arab Leaders.[11] She chaired the 2015–2016 World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on the Middle East and North Africa.[17]

Honors[edit]

In 2005, Dashti won The King Hussein Humanitarian Award.[8][18] She was listed by Arabian Business among their 100 most influential Arabs for 2007[19] and 2008.[20]

In 2010, she won the North–South Prize alongside Mikhail Gorbachev.[21]

Personal life[edit]

Dashti is from a Shi'ite Muslim family of Iranian ancestry and has 23 siblings.[1] Her father, Abdullah Ali Dashti, also served in the Kuwaiti parliament;[1] her mother is Lebanese.[7][16]

Footnotes[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d McDonough, Challiss (2006-06-28). "Kuwaiti Women Appear on Political Landscape This Election". Voice of America. Archived from the original on 2008-04-06.
  2. ^ 1993 Commencement, Johns Hopkins University, p. 86.
  3. ^ a b "Authors: Rola Dashti". World Economic Forum. Retrieved 2017-03-15.
  4. ^ a b "Rise Up Kuwaiti Women 2007". Ms. magazine. Summer 2003. Retrieved 2017-03-15.
  5. ^ a b c d "رولا عبدالله علي حاجيه دشتي : Rola Dashti". Kuwait Politics.org (in Arabic). Retrieved 2017-03-15.
  6. ^ a b "Women as Global Leaders: Communities in Transition. Dr. Rola Dashti: Chairperson, Kuwait Economic Society". Zayed University. 2006. Retrieved 2017-03-15.
  7. ^ a b Omran, Mohamed (4 April 2014). "رولا عبد الله دشتي .. ناشطة اقتصادية طالبت بحقوق المرأة السياسية". Hayatouki (in Arabic).
  8. ^ a b c "About Board of Directors". Kuwait Economic Society. Archived from the original on 2009-06-20.
  9. ^ Ibrahim, Barbara; Sherif, Dina H., eds. (2008). "Acknowledgements". From Charity to Social Change: Trends in Arab Philanthropy. Cairo: American University in Cairo. p. viii. ISBN 9781936190614.
  10. ^ a b Etheridge, Jamie (2005-05-19). "Progress on political rights for Kuwaiti women". Christian Science Monitor.
  11. ^ a b c d "Rola Dashti appointed to Kuwaiti Cabinet". Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. 2012-07-20. Retrieved 2017-03-14.
  12. ^ "Global Advisory Council Members". Vital Voices. Archived from the original on 2009-06-20.
  13. ^ "About Kuwait: The Role Woman in Kuwait". Government of Kuwait, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Embassy of Kuwait in Canada. 2012. Retrieved 2017-03-15.
  14. ^ "Interview with Dr. Rola Dashti, Member of the Kuwaiti Parliament". Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. 2010-03-09. Retrieved 2011-11-06.
  15. ^ "Kuwaiti parliament selects permanent, short-term cmtes". Kuwait News Agency. 2011-10-25. Retrieved 2011-11-06.
  16. ^ a b "بورتريه / رولا الغائبة ... عندما تمطر الذكريات "صداماً" ودموعاً !". Al Rai (in Arabic). 21 September 2016.
  17. ^ "Accelerating Economic Reforms in the Middle East and North Africa: A Private-Sector Perspective" (PDF). Middle East and North Africa Regional Business Council, World Economic Forum. January 2017.
  18. ^ "King Hussein Leadership Prize". King Hussein Foundation.
  19. ^ Power 100, The World's Most Influential Arabs, Rank List 2007 - ArabianBusiness.com
  20. ^ Power 100, The World's Most Influential Arabs, Rank List 2008 - ArabianBusiness.com Archived 2008-05-06 at the Wayback Machine
  21. ^ "The North South Prize of the Council of Europe". North-South Centre, Council of Europe. 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-07-11.

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