NADIA HADAD

Nadia Hadad, a human right activist from young age. She worked as an engineer from water related projects to training of craftsmen and young people excluded from education, to training and supporting local women’s groups in technical issues in many countries. Later on, she became a Disability Inclusion Policy Officer in the field of development cooperation, with ngo PHOS. She’s Individual member of the International Disability and Development Consortium (IDDC). She gives lectures and trainings on inclusive cooperation, the UN CRPD and SDGs, inclusive Climate Justice & Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) at universities, ministries, NGOs, DPOs and more.

Nadia is the Vice President of the Brussels City Advisory Council of Persons with Disabilities, a member of the Brussels Region Advisory Panel and member of the Belgian Supervising Commission of the independent mechanism for the implementation and monitoring of the UN CRPD in Belgium, for GRIP.                                                                          She is a Co-chair of the European Network on Independent Living (ENIL) and a member of the Executive Committee of the European Disability Forum (EDF), advisory panel of European Disability Experts (previously ANED), the EC Disability Platform,  Co chair off the IDDC OPD Taskgroup  and previously also of the Advisory Panel of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency’s Fundamental Rights Platform.

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Nadia has a degree in Electromechanical Engineering, specialising in “Mechanical conception”, water resources engineering, human ecology, environment coordination, and Philosophy.