Yasmina Azhari has had a distinguished career in Syria. She is the deputy director of Maersk Line shipping services, founder of Mawred (an NGO that helps female entrepreneurs launch new business ventures), administrative manager at the P&O Nedlloyd Shipping Agency, and is the founder of a private consulting firm.

In 1999, she was nominated to be the Honorary Consul of the Netherlands at Lattakia & Tartous as well as a Representative of the Netherlands Management Corporation Program, a program of the Dutch government. She was the first woman to join the industry management board of the Lattakia Chamber of Commerce and has twice been elected as the Head of Lattakia Business Women’s Committee.