She earned her BSc in management information systems from Dar Al Hekma University and her MBA and PhD in clean energy transition from Queen Mary, University of London. She is the author of Greening the Black Gold: Saudi Arabia’s Quest for Clean Energy(CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013). She completed a post-doctoral research fellowship at MIT, and is a recipient of the Ibn Khaldun Fellowship from the Center for Clean Water and Clean Energy at King Fahad University for Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) and MIT. She received the 2015 Women Excellence Leadership Award under the category "Rising Stars", and is also a board member at Women in Clean Energy under the Clean Energy Business Council for the Middle East and North Africa.