Nada Hasan Kiblawi was born in Lebanon to refugee parents who were uprooted from their hometown in the Galilee, Palestine, and forced into exile in 1948.
A graduate of the American University of Beirut (AUB) with Bachelor and Master degrees in Electrical Engineering (1973 and 1977); Nada practiced as a licensed professional engineer in Lebanon, Kuwait, and the US, and worked on landmark projects located in numerous countries and states worldwide. She is a retired consulting engineer and business owner; founder and president of NHK Consulting Services, LLC, a professional practice that provided engineering design and construction management on high-end specialty projects for corporate and institutional clients.
Outside professional practice, Nada is a philanthropist and an active supporter and/or participant in numerous Palestinian-American and Arab-American organizations and institutions in the US.
Nada is the managing director of the Kiblawi Foundation, a US registered private family charitable fund that primarily supports educational and cultural programs for Palestinian Youth in the refugee camps of Lebanon and Palestine. She is also a Board member of Americans for Children of the Middle East (ACME), a US 501(c)(3) charitable organization whose mission is to raise contributions from American donors for Unite Lebanon Youth Project (ULYP), its sister NGO in Lebanon.
