Ameera bint Aidan bin Nayef al-Taweel al-Otaibi (Arabic: أميرة بنت عيدان بن نايف الطويل العصيمي العتيبي; born 6 November 1983) is a Saudi Arabian philanthropist and ex-princess.
She was the vice chairwoman of the al-Waleed bin Talal Foundation, a charity in Saudi Arabia, for the duration of her marriage, which ended in a divorce in 2013.
[citation needed] Al-Taweel is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of New Haven with a degree in Business Administration.
[citation needed] Al-Taweel has inaugurated the Alwaleed Bin Talal Village Orphanage in Burkina Faso[9] and traveled to Pakistan to provide aid and relief to the country's flood victims and to support education.
[10] Most recently she has spearheaded a relief mission to Somalia, where she and her ex-husband, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, oversaw the distribution of Foundation-sponsored aid.
Al-Taweel has spoken out publicly in the United States on NBC's Today, CNN International[11] and NPR, as well as in Time magazine and Foreign Policy magazine in support of both women's right to drive in her country of Saudi Arabia and the broader issue of women's overall empowerment to contribute fully to Saudi society.
In 2012, Ameera was interviewed by Charlie Rose on Bloomberg and spoke about her work for equal rights and women's empowerment in Saudi Arabia through Alwaleed Foundations.