Sustainability Seminar Series | Redefining success after losing

Thursday, July 29, 2021
4:00 – 5:00 p.m. (AST)
On Zoom

By Ms. Lubna Al Omair
Executive Director for The Saudi Arabian Olympic Committee
Saudi Arabia’s first female Olympic fencer (Rio 2016 Olympics)

You are invited to attend a special topic of the 2021 Summer Sustainability Seminar Series featuring a women’s empowerment influencing figure. 
Ms. Lubnah will share with us her unique story and insights that will resonate with every dreamer and driver of positive impact.

This initiative comes as a fruitful outcome from the collaboration between Students for Sustainability and Magpies Women’s Football Club at KAUST with Kafo. Kafo is a women’s football team in Jeddah participating in a national tournament organized by the Saudi Sport For All Federation to compete in the global goals world cup. In this cup, each team champions one of the SDGs, and is ranked by the action taken for their Goal on and off the field. The teams are scored in four distinct categories: Action, Crowd, Style and Football. Those awarded not only win a tournament. They amplify their calls to action and create impact, locally and globally. Team Kafo plays for Gender Equality, Goal 5. They aspire to contribute to promoting women’s empowerment and spread awareness among girls and all members of society about the potential and competence of women.

About the speaker

Lubna Mohammed Al Omair is Saudi Arabia’s first female Olympic fencer (Rio 2016 Olympics). Ms. Al Omair co-founded The Dhahran Fencing Club in 2014, the first female fencing club in Saudi Arabia. She holds a Master in Business Information Technology from DePaul University, Chicago and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP). She worked for Saudi Aramco, Quality of Life Vision 2030 Program and is currently working as the Executive Director of Special Projects Department for The Saudi Arabian Olympic Committee (SAOC).