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HRH Princess Haya became the 13th FEI President on 1 May 2006 on the basis of a Manifesto She presented to the General Assembly and was re-elected to serve a second term in November 2010. Many important developments and initiatives have come to fruition since Her election, from the commercial aspects of sponsorship and broadcasting, to the far reaching campaigns of Clean Sport and FEI Solidarity. The inauguration of the FEI Headquarters in Lausanne, the HM King Hussein I Building, donated by HRH Princess Haya in April 2011 is the most tangible phase of a construction process that has taken place since Her election which has seen the FEI expand its team of professionals and improve the services it owes to the global equestrian community.

HRH Princess Haya has been an IOC member since 2007 and has served on the IOC Athletes’ Commission (2005-2010) and on the Commission for Culture and Olympic Education. In June 2010 She became a Global Patron for the World Academy of Sport.

At age 13, HRH Princess Haya was the first female to represent Jordan internationally in equestrian sport in Jumping. She won an Individual Bronze Medal in the Pan-Arab Equestrian Games in 1992, and is the only female ever to have won a Pan-Arab medal in equestrian sport. In 2000, HRH Princess Haya fulfilled a lifelong dream by competing at the Sydney Olympic Games in Jumping and two years later, competed for Jordan in the FEI World Equestrian Games™ in Jerez, Spain, making Her the first Arab woman to qualify for and compete in equestrian sport at Olympic, world and continental championship level.

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