Amal Albinali

IAF Bureau • VP: Education and Workforce Development
Bahrain Space Agency • Chief, Strategic Planning & Projects Management Department

Amal Albinali is currently working as the chief of strategic planning and projects management department in Bahrain Space Agency (BSA), representing the agency in high level meetings and international relationships. She has been selected as the International Astronautical Federation (IAF) Vice President for Education and Workforce Development (2024-2027) and awarded the medal of national service from His Majesty the King of Bahrain in recognition of BSA teams’ efforts in achieving Bahraini accomplishments (March 2025). She chaired the 6th International Space Forum at Ministerial Level preparation committee hosted in the Kingdom of Bahrain and organized under the auspices of the IAF, the Italian Space Agency (ASI), and BSA (July 2024) and organized the 1st Space Forum during the Bahrain International Airshow “BIAS” (November 2022) and the 2nd edition (November 2024).

She has a master's degree in business administration (MBA) from University of Strathclyde and a bachelor’s degree with excellence from the University of Bahrain (UOB) – Chemistry major, Computer Science minor - in which she achieved Jaber Bin Hayan’s prize for being the best graduate in terms of academic performance and students-related activities. She has worked previously as chief of quality and performance measurement in Civil Service Bureau and standards development supervisor in Ministry of Industry and Commerce where she led project teams, managed two national Technical Committees and represented Kingdom of Bahrain in Gulf Committees’ meetings.

She is a certified lead auditor in ISO 27001 for Information Security Management System and ISO 9001 for Quality Management System. She was a panelist during IAF Spring Meetings IDEA DAY (March 2025) and a speaker in different forums and conferences held in cooperation with Bahrain Quality Society (2015), Education and Training Quality Authority (2019) and UOB (2019). Additionally, she has published 3 research papers in the fields of strategy, project management and space education.

Events

IAF Spring Meetings 2025

25-27 March 2025

Paris, France

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