Amina Al Rustamani was ranked number 9 in the CEO Middle East's fifth annual list of the world's most powerful Arab women, published in 2015. She was picked as the Advertising Person of the Year by Dubai Lynx for 2015. She started her career in Dubai in 2001 as an electrical engineer with TECOM Investments (now TECOM Group), becoming one of few females in the Middle East to enter the profession. She received her bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from The George Washington University, Washington, DC in 1993, 1996, and 2001, respectively. More recently, Amina was involved in the development of Dubai Design District and Dubai Wholesale City.