Sheikha Haya is the principal and founding partner of Haya Rashed Al Khalifa Law Firm.

Sheikha Haya obtained a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Kuwait in 1974. She has also obtained an Diploma in Civil Rights Private Law from the University of Alexandria, Egypt in 1986 and a Diploma in Comparative Law from the University of Ain Shams, Egypt in 1988. She was admitted as a lawyer in Bahrain in 1979. She has been admitted to both the Court of Cassation and the Constitutional Court of Bahrain and is a member of the Bahrain Bar Association.

Prior to founding Haya Rashed Al Khalifa Law Firm, Sheikha Haya had been the former counsel at the Bahrain Ministry of State for Legal Affairs as well as a senior attorney at another major Bahraini law firm.

Sheikha Haya is currently a member of the World Intellectual Property Organisation Arbitration Committee and a member of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) International Court of Arbitration. She is also a member of the Bahrain Supreme Counsil of Culture, Arts & Literature and the former Vice-President of the Bahrain Bar Association.

Sheikha Haya has a distinguished diplomatic career. From 2000 to 2004 she was Bahrain's ambassador to France and its nonresident ambassador to Belgium, Switzerland and Spain. She is currently the President of the General Assembly of the United Nations - a role she will hold until late 2007. She is also Bahrain's permanent delegate to UNESCO, the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

Sheikha Haya is fluent in Arabic, French and English.