Nabeeha Mujeeb Kazi

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.

In addition to PAI’s advocacy and accountability efforts targeting the US government and international institutions, PAI provides funding and support to community-based organizations in over 35 countries who are working to advance SRHR priorities in their own countries and further fuel a global movement grounded in the agency, autonomy and human rights of women, youth and at-risk communities around the world.

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. Throughout her career, Nabeeha has been a passionate advocate for equity-centered development, evidence-based policy, and accountable leadership. She is widely recognized for her ability to bridge research, advocacy, and implementation, and for building inclusive coalitions that drive lasting social and health outcomes globally.

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 leading public relations firms where she led global health, development, nutrition and child development programs and practices. 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.