Amna Al Qubaisi
Representation inside elite performance environments stalls at the same point in most organisations. The pipeline produces candidates; the culture does not promote them. Leaders can name the barrier in a workshop and still not move a number on the scoreboard. What shifts the picture is live evidence that the path exists, from someone who has walked it inside a top-flight performance system.
Amna Al Qubaisi is the first Emirati woman to race single-seaters internationally, and she gives organisations a live case study in what it takes to break into a closed performance culture.
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Why organisations work with Amna Al Qubaisi
- A first-of-kind credential that is current, not historical. Active seat in F1 Academy with MP Motorsport, Red Bull Academy Programme driver representing Visa Cash App RB, and the first Arab female driver inside the Porsche AG Talent Pool Asia.
- A concrete Gulf-region story for DEI programmes that usually default to Western examples. Useful for EMEA, Asia-Pacific and global HQs with Middle East operations.
- Insider experience of two manufacturer-backed talent systems, Red Bull and Porsche, which gives her specific material on how elite performance cultures identify, develop and retain outliers.
- Works in English and Arabic, which makes her directly usable for Gulf corporate, public-sector and sponsor-activation programming around regional race weekends.
Biography highlights
- First Emirati woman to compete in international single-seater racing. Italian F4 Championship with Prema Powerteam, 2018.
- First Arab woman to win a Formula 4 race. F4 UAE Trophy Round, Yas Marina Circuit, 2019.
- Two seasons in F1 Academy with MP Motorsport. Sixth overall in 2023 with race wins at Spielberg and Barcelona.
- Red Bull Academy Programme driver from 2024, representing Visa Cash App RB.
- First Arab and first Arab female driver in the Porsche AG Talent Pool Asia. Pro class seat with Team Jebsen, Porsche Carrera Cup Asia, 2026.
- Rookie test with Envision Virgin Racing in Formula E at Diriyah.
Biography
Single-seater racing is one of the most closed performance cultures in professional sport. Entry depends on manufacturer backing, sponsor networks and a family record, and the pathway has historically routed through a small set of European karting circuits. The Italian F4 grid at Prema Powerteam in 2018 included the first Emirati woman ever to compete internationally in the format, Amna Al Qubaisi.
What followed has not been a career of ceremonial firsts. Two seasons in F1 Academy with MP Motorsport. Sixth overall in the inaugural 2023 season with wins at Spielberg and Barcelona. Selection in 2024 by the Red Bull Academy Programme, representing Visa Cash App RB, with access to the team’s UK simulator and performance staff. A Formula E rookie test at Diriyah with Envision Virgin Racing.
The 2026 seat in the Pro class of Porsche Carrera Cup Asia with Team Jebsen, as the first Arab female driver inside the Porsche AG Talent Pool Asia, puts her inside a factory development structure with defined routes into GT and prototype racing. That is the point worth noticing for a corporate audience. Her record is a sequence of places earned inside working manufacturer systems, on the criteria applied to every other driver in the pool.
For organisations working on representation in performance-led functions, trading, engineering, surgery, investment, the useful content is not that she made it. It is what the system around her did, and did not do, to let her compete on equal terms.
Key speaking topics
- Women in elite motorsport
- Representation inside closed performance cultures
- High-pressure execution and race-weekend preparation
- Manufacturer and team development pathways
- Gulf-region leadership and role-model narratives
- Careers for young women in STEM and engineering
Ideal for
- DEI, talent and employee resource group programmes looking for a non-Western role-model case study
- Leadership offsites in performance-led functions: trading, engineering, medicine, investment
- Corporate partner and sponsor events in automotive, sports and luxury brand portfolios
- Women-in-STEM summits and graduate programmes across EMEA and Asia-Pacific
Audience outcomes
- A direct account of how a closed talent system admits an outsider, and what the outsider has to do to stay admitted
- A Gulf-region reference point for representation conversations that usually default to Europe or North America
- An inside view of how Red Bull and Porsche identify and develop young performers
- A sense of what role-modelling looks like when the person doing it is still competing, not looking back