Lola Nashashibi Grace

Lola Nashashibi Grace is currently founder and Chairman at Middle East Children Institute (MECI). She holds three degrees from Stanford University and had an active career in investment banking. She is now engaged in a number of philanthropic activities.

Her interest in science is expressed in different activities: she is Honorary Trustee at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where she served in a number of capacities for 15 years and she is also founder and organiser of the "Women in science lunch" that raises funds for different research programmes led by women. She has been an essential driving force to create the Impact Cancer Foundation.