Sofana Dahlan is an accomplished lawyer and social entrepreneur. She has completed an undergraduate degree in Law (LLB) and a postgraduate degree (LLM) in Islamic Law from Cairo University and holds an MBA degree from the American University of Technology. She has also obtained an executive degree in Global Leadership & Public Policy from Harvard University. She holds the prized distinction of being among the first three female lawyers to have been granted the permit to practice law in Saudi Arabia and has served as a legal consultant in different parts of the Arab world including Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, and Kuwait. Most recently, Dahlan has been appointed as the Vice Governor for Entrepreneurship Advancement at the Small and Medium Enterprises Authority of Saudi Arabia (SMEA), making her the first Saudi female senior economic policy-maker.