Leena El-Ali

Leena El-Ali is author of the groundbreaking, international bestseller "No Truth Without Beauty: God, the Qur'an, and Women's Rights", published in 2022 to scholarly and lay acclaim around the globe.

A strategic thinker by nature, Leena has been an award-winning fund manager, an investment banker and a social entrepreneur in a career spanning over 30 years. She has worked with a number of international, non-profit organizations across South and South-East Asia, the Middle East and North Africa in several areas including conflict mitigation, governance and peacebuilding; and Islam and democracy, human rights and women’s rights. From 2005 to 2012 she was the editor-in-chief and publisher of the Common Ground News Service, commissioning constructive op-eds for Muslim-Western understanding and distributing them worldwide in six languages. Since 2013, she has provided advisory and consulting services in international affairs, development and investment to a variety of clients.

Leena is committed to greater inter-spiritual understanding in our fractured world, and to shining a light on the spirituality that lies at the heart of all religions. Educated primarily in Beirut as well as in England, Leena speaks Arabic, English, French and Spanish and is a British-American citizen.