Rowaida Al-Maaitah

Position: President of the Board of Trustees at the Hashemite University, former Senator and former Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research
Hashemite University
Categories: Keynote Speakers
Location: Jordan

President of the Board of Trustees at the Hashemite University, VP of the of the board of the National Health Care Accreditation Council, member of the higher Council of the National Centre for Curriculum Development, Advisor for HRH Princess Muna EL Hussein for Health and Social Development, member of the Jordanian nursing Council, and Professor at the college of Nursing/ Jordan University of Science and Technology.

Former Senator and Minister of 3 ministries: Higher Education and Scientific Research, Social Development and Government Performance. Fromer President of the Hashemite University, DG of King Abdullah University Hospital, President of the BOT/ Yarmouk University, and VP and Secretary General of the National Council for Family Affairs. Former VP at JUST, Dean of the College of Nursing/ JUST, founder/WHO collaboration center of excellence at JUST, and Chairperson of the Executive Council of the Arab Women Organization at the Arab League.

AlMaaitah completed B.Sc./nursing from University of Jordan, MPH and Doctoral Degrees in Public Health from Tulane University/USA, post-doctoral fellowship in Health Administration/Louisiana State University, and completed Senior Executive Education Programs in leadership and power at Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

AlMaaitah is a recipient of the Order of the State Centennial 2021, the Order of the Star of Jordan/First Order in 2003 and the Bahraini Decoration of the Second Order in 2006. She is an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Nursing at the RCSI University/Dublin and Recipient of AbdulHameed Shoman Medical Sciences Award for Young Arab Scientists.