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Princess Reema Bint Al Badar is nothing short of just incredible – and she recently gave everybody just all the more reasons to look up to her as an inspiration.<\/p>\n

She has just been appointed as the new (and first female) ambassador to the US<\/h3>\n
Here are five things everybody must know about her.<\/p>\n
\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/gifs\/election2016-dnc-democratic-national-convention-2016-3o7TKU6vEGSPDy6vvO\">via GIPHY<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3>1. Princess Reema Bint Bandar is daughter of Bandar bin Sultan Al Saud, the grandson of Ibn Saud (the founder of modern day Saudi Arabia, as we all know)<\/h3>\n<figure class=\"content__image\">\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" alt=\"000 11 I15 H Crop\" src=\"https:\/\/cloud.lovinsaudi.com\/images\/uploads\/2019\/03\/_blogWide\/000_11I15H-crop.jpg?mtime=20190301053232\"><\/figure>\n<h3>2. The princess lived most of her life in the United States but moved back to Saudi Arabia in 2006 at the age of 28<\/h3>\n<figure class=\"content__image\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"226\" alt=\"96565Be1 2Af7 4E0D 83F7 646E074B729C Getty 620905644\" src=\"https:\/\/cloud.lovinsaudi.com\/images\/uploads\/2019\/03\/_blogWide\/96565be1-2af7-4e0d-83f7-646e074b729c-getty-620905644.jpg?mtime=20190301053240\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"c-adunit c-adunit--mpu_mid\">\n<div id=\"mpu_mid\" class=\"c-adunitcontainer\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>3. Princess Reema\u2019s career in Saudi Arabia began at a Harvey Nichols in Riyadh<\/h3>\n<p>She soon became the first female CEO of the company and began intensively campaigning for more women in the workspace.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"contentimage\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"210\" alt=\"Canva Photo Editor 13\" src=\"https:\/\/cloud.lovinsaudi.com\/images\/uploads\/2019\/03\/_blogWide\/canva-photo-editor-13.png?mtime=20190301053328\"><\/figure>\n<h3>4. In 2014, she stepped down as the CEO and launched Alf Khair (Arabic for \u2018a thousand blessings\u2019)<\/h3>\n<p>Al Khair is a social enterprise that aims to cultivate creative talent in the country and to promote that talent internationally. Alf Khair also developed Alf Darb, a training academy for women who want to enter the workforce.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"content__image\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"215\" alt=\"Princess Reema\" src=\"https:\/\/cloud.lovinsaudi.com\/images\/uploads\/2019\/03\/_blogWide\/princess-reema.jpg?mtime=20190301053354\"><\/figure>\n<h3>5. She first started making headlines after she became the first woman to be appointed the President of the Saudi Federation for Community Sports<\/h3>\n<figure class=\"content__image\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"210\" alt=\"Community Engagement Will Be Key To Foreign Investment In Saudi Arabia Princess Reema Says\" src=\"https:\/\/cloud.lovinsaudi.com\/images\/uploads\/2019\/03\/_blogWide\/community-engagement-will-be-key-to-foreign-investment-in-saudi-arabia-princess-reema-says.jpg?mtime=20190301053416\"><\/figure>\n<p><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Princess Reema Bint Al Badar is nothing short of just incredible – and she recently gave everybody just all the more reasons to look up to her as an inspiration. 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