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UAE Minister of State for Youth Affairs, Shama Al Mazrouei, has entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the youngest woman minister in the world.
According to the Guinness book in its 2018 edition, the 22-year-old Al Mazrouei assumed the post of Minister of State for Youth Affairs within the ministerial reshuffle announced by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE, and Ruler of Dubai, in 2016.
Al Mazrouei also serves as President of the Youth Council too.
Al-Mazrouei then ousted Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastien Curtis, who won the title at the age of 27, and Aida Haj Ali, who took over the Swedish Ministry of Education at the age of 26.
Earlier, the UAE news agency WAM reported that Al Mazrouei had received a master's degree in public policy with honors from Oxford University in the United Kingdom. The first female student from the UAE that was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to young leaders in government work.
Al Mazrouei also received an Advanced Diploma in Multisectoral Partnerships from New York University and a Bachelor of Economics degree with honors from the same university.
She also worked for a sovereign wealth fund in Abu Dhabi. Prior to that, she was a public policy analyst within the UAE mission to the United Nations in New York. She also worked as a ministerial policy analyst and participated in the Youth Innovation Laboratory Research Group at the Office of the Prime Minister.
She was awarded the Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Award for Excellence and was an associate member of the prestigious San Francisco University School of Achievement. She is also responsible for communication and external relations at the Oxford Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies Forum in the United Kingdom.
https://arabic.rt.com/middle_east/897982-وزيرة-إماراتية-موسوعة-غينيس-للأرقام-القياسية/