Al Hashem obtained a degree in English literature from Kuwait University and completed here MBA from the Pennsylvania State University. She also has a post graduate diploma from Harvard Business School. In 2011, she was awarded a Ph.D, Doctorate (Honoris causa) by the American University of Technology.
She is the only female member to be elected to the Kuwait parliament consecutively, after women re-gained the right to vote and stand for office in 2005. Before entering politics, Al Hashem worked for the government in the Ministry of Higher She later worked in various private companies being associated with PIC, PWC and the KIPCO Group.
In the 2012 assembly, she served as the rapporteur of the Economic and Financial Affairs committee, and was a member of the Response to the Amiri Addrss and Foreign Affairs committees.
