Prof. Amany Lubis was born on 22 December 1963 and is an Indonesian Muslim women scholar of Mandailing-Egyptian descent. As an Islamic scholar, Prof. Lubis was appointed as Chairperson of the Indonesian Ulema Council for Women, Youth and Families for the 2015–2020 period. On 7 January 2019, she was appointed as Rector of the Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University Jakarta by the Minister of Religious Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia, Lukman Hakim Saifuddin. Her new position made her the first woman who served as Chancellor of the largest Islamic University in Indonesia, Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University Jakarta.