Born in Kuwait, Queen Rania com-pleted her primary and secondary education there and obtained a bachelor's degree in business administration from the American University in Cairo in 1991. Upon her graduation, she returned to Jordan and pursued a successful career in the banking sector, followed by a brief career in the field of information technology.

She married King Abdullah Bin Al-Hussein on June 10, 1993. They have three children: Prince Hussein, born on June 28, 1994; Princess Iman, born on September 27, 1996; and Princess Salma, born on September 26, 2000.

Queen Rania has channeled her energies into projects that aim to improve the livelihood of under privileged groups in Jordanian society. Her activities encompass the development of income-generating projects, the protection of children from violence and the promotion of early childhood development, as well as encouraging the advancement of the best practices in the field of micro-finance. In 1995, she established the Jordan River Foundation (JRF), a nonprofit, nongovernmental institution. The overall objective of the foundation is to work at the grass roots level to motivate low-income Jordanian families to participate in income-generating initiatives.

In 1998, Queen Rania oversaw the launching of the Child Abuse Prevention Project - the first of its kind in the Arab region. The project conceived a framework to create, under one institutional umbrella, the capacity to address the immediate needs for protecting children at risk of abuse and to adopt a long-term campaign to modify public attitudes towards violence against children.

Queen Rania also heads the National Working Group for Early Childhood Development, which is entrusted with drawing up a national strategy to tackle the issue of early childhood development in Jordan. She is also involved with several national initiatives aiming to foster community service, creativity and critical thinking among Jordan's youth, as well as to expose them to global issues, such as Information Technology and conflict resolution.

The author of a children's book about the late King Hussein, Queen Rania is also chairperson of the International Jury of the UNESCO Prize for Children's and Young People's Literature in the Service of Tolerance, which aims to cultivate a global culture of tolerance and peace. The award is given every two years in recognition of young writers who best communicate the concepts of peace and tolerance.