Maya Alhawary

Alhawary started her career in 2012, when she was appointed as Principal and Acting Director of Dubai Women's College High School becoming the first ever Emirati woman to become a principal for the first learning environment school in the MENA Region. She was named Knowledge Ambassador to the UAE Red Crescent in 2017 where she was a volunteer lecturer. Alhawary later became Chairwoman of Board of Governors of Dubai Carmel School in 2014. She was a speaker on the TEDx platform in 2019.

Alhawary was invited to speak at the National Treasure Conference in 2018.^[6] Alhawary was one of the four panelists at "The Flow Talk Series" session held on the occasion of Emirati Women's Day^{[7][8][9][10][11]} and one of the panelists,^{[12][13][14][15]} as celebrated on 28 August 2019.