Princess Lalla Joumala Alaoui (born 1962, as Sharifa only) is a Moroccan diplomat who served as the country's Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 2009 to 2016 and to the United States from 2016 to 2023.
Princess Lalla Joumala Alaoui was educated at the Mission laïque française of Rabat then at the University of Oxford Faculty of Oriental Studies, where she graduated with a Bachelor in law. After, she settled in Casablanca, where she became active in some of the city's NGOs.
For a brief period in 1999âÂÂ2000, she was diplomatic attaché at the Moroccan Embassy to United Nations.
She is the President of the Moroccan-British Society.
She is a member of the Metropolitan Club of Washington DC, and a member of the Cosmos Club.