Rasha Alem was born in Cairo, Egypt. In 1998 she earned a BA in business administration from the Arab Academy for Management, Banking and Financial Sciences; in 2003 a MBA from the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport in Alexandria, Egypt and in 2005 she earned her PhD in marketing from the University of Michigan. Additionally, Rasha has studied drawing and painting at the Florence Academy of Art and contemporary portrait studies in Madrid, Spain. Rasha lives and works in Doha.