Haifa Najjar

Haifa Yousef Fadel Najjar (born Zarqa, 1959) is the Jordanian Minister of Culture.

[1][2][3] Najjar completed a degree in population studies at the University of Jordan before attaining a master's degree in transformational management at the University of Buckingham.

[3] She was a founding member of the Board of Trustees of The King's Academy and a board member of the Greater Amman Municipality.

[1] Najjar was awarded the Al-Hussein Humanitarian Leadership Prize (2001), the El-Hassan Bin Talal Award for Academic Excellence (2002), and the European Council of International Schools (ECIS) Award for the Promotion of International Education (2009).

She received the Lanfranc Award for Education and Scholarship from Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, in 2017 "for her outstanding contribution to education in Jordan and her exemplary leading role in Jordanian society as a Christian woman.