Biography of Secretary General of Cabinet

Her Excellency/Najla Mohammed Al Awar

Her Excellency/Najla Mohammed Al Awar has been appointed as the Secretary General of UAE Cabinet since March of 2006.

She supervises the general secretariat of the cabinet, which is at the centre of daily government business.  It has the responsibility for preparing the cabinet's agenda, drafting its resolutions, and following up their implementation. The general secretariat of the cabinet is also in charge of providing legal, technical and administrative support on the issues presented to the cabinet and making the relevant appropriate recommendations.

She also contributes in preparing the final form of federal legislations and enforcing the applicable constitutional procedures.

Her Excellency played a vital role in the development of the two cycles of the UAE Government Strategy 2008-2010 and 2011-2013. She has also participated in following up on the implementation of these strategies. In developing these strategies, the priorities of government work in the UAE have been identified across all sectors, and hundreds of strategic initiatives have been launched to be carried out by federal government entities. In the mean time, Her Excellency has also actively participated in the planning and execution of the restructuring of the government machinery, aiming at enhancing efficiency and effectiveness levels to guarantee the achievement of the goals stipulated in the UAE Government Strategy.

In addition, Her Excellency has established the Government Communication Office and worked on developing it and closely monitoring its work. The purpose has been organizing government communication efforts across the federal government and raising them to international standards. Her Excellency has directly overseen the development of the first federal government communication strategy in 2008 and the implementation of its strategic initiatives. She has also overseen unifying the federal government identity, and providing the infrastructure necessary to facilitate the flow of information across federal government entities through establishing the Government Communications Network. Moreover, she has called for and closely monitored the process of unifying the government voice and maintaining constant and fruitful interaction with the media, all in a systematic and organized manner.

Her Excellency sits on the board of directors of the General Pensions and Social Security Authority, which aims at providing a comprehensive and integrated social security network for all UAE nationals working in the federal and local governments as well as in the private sector. This is achieved through the optimal utilization of the authority’s financial resources, of which investments has totaled AED 21 Billion, towards the welfare of a number of participants that has exceeded 75,000 as of 2011.

Furthermore, Her Excellency is also a board member of Dubai Women Foundation. This foundation strives to empower UAE national women and provide them with the necessary tools so that they can get involved deeply in numerous cultural and economic areas and carry out their main duties in building the entire community. In addition, Her Excellency is a member in the National Curriculum Development Committee, which undertakes the assessment of existing curricula, evaluating their appropriateness for the demands of this day and age, developing the accreditation criteria of national curricula, and defining the desired educational outcomes in congruence with the national education objectives.

HE Najla Al Awar has graduated from UAE university with the major of IT science and has been trained in management at by London Business School.