Member, Board of Directors, Qatar Foundation for Education Science and Community Development (QF), since 1999.

Member, Executive Board of Directors, Qatar Foundation for Education Science and Community Development (QF), since 1999. 

Member, the Advisory Board, Weill Cornell Medical College-Qatar (WCMC-Q), since 2002. 

Member, Supreme Education Council (SEC), since  2002. (Prof. Sheikha became the president of this committee with the beginning of 2009.)

Member, Executive Committee, Supreme Education Council (SEC), since  2002. 

Member, United Nations University Council (UNUC), since June 2004. 

Member, Board of Trustees, Dubai Ethics Resource Centre (DERC), since 2006.

Member, International Association of Universities (IAU), since 2006.

Member of the Advisory Board of the Arab Human Development Report 2008, of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) since 2007.

Member of the Advisory Board of the centre for International and Regional Studies (CIRS), since 2007.

Member of the Arab Knowledge Report Advisory Board since October 2007.

Member of the board of Trustees of the German Orient Foundation since November 2008.

Member of the Asian University for Women International Council of Advisors, 2009.