Nabeeha Kazi Hutchins serves as president and CEO of PAI. For close to 60 years, PAI has been championing sexual and reproductive health and rights as essential to development progress, including the achievement of health equity, gender equality and economic achievement.
Nabeeha brings more than 25 years of movement building, policy advocacy, and community engagement experience in HIV/AIDS, food and nutrition security, maternal, newborn and child health, and conservation. She has dedicated her career to supporting equitable health, social and development outcomes across Asia, Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean.
Nabeeha is the founder of Humanitas Global, an international development organization that advances programs in agricultural development, food and nutrition security, maternal and child health, and youth empowerment. She also served Executive Director of No Wasted Lives, a multi-lateral coalition to combat acute malnutrition in children, and was Partner and Senior Vice President at FleishmanHillard, one of the world’s biggest public relations firms.
Nabeeha also served in leadership roles with the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative (now CHAI) and KABOOM! and communications roles with the EastWest Institute and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) in Mexico.
Born in Pakistan and raised in Mexico, Nabeeha holds bachelor’s degrees in political science and journalism and mass communications from Kansas State University and dual master’s degrees in international affairs and public health from Columbia University. Nabeeha is based in Washington, D.C., where she resides with her family.
