Al-Mayasa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
Al-Mayasa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani ( Arabic المياسة بنت حمد بن خليفة آل ثاني, DMG al-Mayāsa bt. Ḥamad b. Ḫalīfa Āl Ṯānī , born 1983 in Doha , Emirate of Qatar ) is the chairman of the Qatar Museums Authority , which is responsible for the Museum of Islamic Art , the Arab Museum of Modern Art and the QMA Gallery ; further museums are planned. She is also the director of the Film Institute she founded in Doha in 2010.
family
She is the daughter of Hamad bin Chalifa Al Thani with his second wife Musa bint Nasser al-Missned , thus the sister of the reigning Emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani . Since January 2006 she has been married to Sheikh Jassim bin Abdul Aziz Al-Thani, with whom she has three sons.
education
Al-Mayasa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani has no special academic training in the fine arts. In 2005, she obtained a bachelor's degree in political science and literature from Duke University in the United States . As part of her studies, she also spent a year in Paris from 2003 to 2004 at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Sciences Po .
Importance on the international art market
The American Forbes Magazine ranked Al-Mayasa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani 91st in its list The World's 100 Most Powerful Women in 2014 , and TIME magazine included it in its list of the 100 most influential people in the world . The art magazine ArtReview listed her in its annual list of the 100 most powerful people in the global art market (Power 100) in 2013 and 13th in 2014. Business news service Bloomberg estimated her annual budget for art purchases in 2013 about $ 1 billion.
literature
- Takashi Murakami : Sheika al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani. Qatar's transformative patron of the arts. In: Time. April 23, 2014.
- Mark Brown: Qatar's Sheikha Mayassa tops art power list . In: The Guardian, October 24, 2013
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Al Thani, Al-Mayasa bint Hamad bin Khalifa |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Qatari President of the Emirates Museum Authority of Qatar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1983 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Doha , Qatar |