Eman Al-Dabbas

An authoritative Senior Legal Counsel and Legislative Drafting Expert with a distinguished track record in advancing regulatory and statutory environments, shaping public policy, and architecting primary and secondary legislation. Possesses an extensive background in leading and reviewing complex, large-scale national strategic projects, public law reforms, and infrastructure ventures, across the Levant and the Gulf regions. Highly trusted by government ministries, regional sovereign institutions, and international corporations to steer high-stakes institutional overhauls, execute multidisciplinary legal due diligence, and manage high-value strategic transactions. Ms. Al Dabbas has spearheaded and directed complex legislative and institutional reform programs, including the development of Jordan's investment regulatory framework, transport and infrastructure legislation, tourism sector reform, natural resources regulation, the legal and institutional architecture of the Development Zones, and Petra Development and Tourism Region and related governance frameworks. Her role has extended beyond legislative drafting to architecting regulatory systems, institutional mandates, implementing frameworks, and operational mechanisms, supported by comparative legal analysis, stakeholder consultation, and implementation planning. Ms. Al Dabbas has undertaken significant regional legal and institutional reform mandates, including advisory work in Saudi Arabia associated with Vision 2030 reform agenda and major national development initiatives. Her experience includes contributing to the development and operationalization of foundational legal and governance frameworks for major economic, urban, industrial, and justice-sector institutions, as well as the modernization of legislative development processes and institutional arrangements. She is particularly regarded for her ability to integrate legislative design, institutional reform, and strategic implementation within a single coherent legal framework. Her practice reflects a combination of technical excellence, strategic judgement, and implementation-focused insight that is especially valued in complex reform, investment, and infrastructure mandates. Ms. Al Dabbas has acted on major public-private partnership and strategic infrastructure mandates. Her representative experience includes nationally significant projects such as the Jaber Border Crossing PPP, the Amman East Power Project, the Disi Water Conveyance Project, and major airport- and port-related infrastructure and restructuring initiatives. A further dimension of Ms. Al Dabbas’s practice is reflected in her contribution to numerous high-level legislative drafting workshops, expert roundtables, and technical consultations devoted to the development, refinement, and structuring of primary and secondary legislation. Her participation in these forums underscores not only a sophisticated command of legislative method and drafting discipline, but also a broader commitment to shaping legal instruments that are technically rigorous, institutionally coherent, and capable of effective implementation. Over the course of her career, Ms. Al Dabbas has earned recognition as a trusted advisor on sophisticated mandates involving legislative modernization, public sector transformation, national development policy, governance arrangements, institutional structuring, and strategic project and investment work. She is distinguished by an uncommon capacity to integrate technical legal excellence, strategic judgement, and implementation depth within a single advisory framework, making her exceptionally well placed to support ambitious reform programmes and institutionally significant legal and regulatory change.