Rania Dalloul

Rania Dalloul – career woman, wife and mother of seven, active member of social movements, philanthropist, athlete, Yoga and meditation adept, expert cook.

Any one of these roles would be enough to keep one busy for the rest of their life. Yet Rania Dalloul manages to play all these roles – and to perfection – in her own life.

Rania was born on 18th January 1973.

Rania was brought up in Paris and has benefited from her Middle East background and the European ambience, culture and education. In 1991 she graduated from the Panthéon-Assas University in Paris with a bachelor degree magna cum laude in Economics and, later a DEUG degree in Law. She decided to pursue the legal career and continued her education at the Sorbonne University from which she graduated in 1995 with a degree in International Law.

In 1996 she did her internship with the Advisor to President Jacques Chirac at the Dupré Law Office in Paris.

In 1998 she joined the family business – the Dalfa Group, a real estate company established by Rania’s father in 1983. The company has a great share of the international market having its offices in the United States, Europe, Lebanon, UAE and Nigeria and conducting operations worldwide. The company is involved in operating, developing, leasing and managing high-end properties. Since 2011 the company entered in a franchising business with such restaurant chains as Domino’s Pizza, Cold Stone, Hardee’s, Moti Roti, Sahtein, Gustronomy and Auntie Anne’s. It also has a fleet of yachts for chartered cruises. After Fakhri Dalloul’s demise the company has been run by his sons Marwan Dalloul and Ziad Dalloul.

Rania’s contribution to the family business as a lawyer is hard to overestimate. She is not only a skilful legal advisor but also a great communicator and negotiator which brought her to the teams working on the major projects such as the Bush Building renovation and the Bush Tower sale.

Mixing in the high financial and business circles has never made Rania Dalloul forget about the poor and the needy in the Third World. Already a mother of seven, in 2004 she went to India and adopted three orphans. One year later she came back to add 18 more children to her family. Yet she never left the orphanage from which she adopted those children short of her cares. Over the years she helped Father S