Nazia Mintz Habib

Early life and education

Born in Bangladesh, she earned a scholarship to study at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh in the United States. At Plattsburgh, she was awarded the Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence and the Dean's Award for Outstanding Student in the School of Business and Economics. She was the 2003 commencement speaker. After graduating in 2003, she worked for IBM in New York City. At Cambridge, Habib has a full professor role with appointments with both the Department of Engineering and Department of Land Economy and is affiliated with Newnham College.

She is also a social entrepreneur and advisor to non-profit organisations.

She is co-editor of the Society of Chemical Industry journal SCI Sustainability.

Centre for Resilience and Sustainable Development At the centre she founded in Cambridge, Habib and her team train decision-makers in systems thinking and develop new methodologies to add to those she has developed. The project was a runner-up in the University of Cambridge Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Research Impact and Engagement. The partnership continued in 2023 with the creation of the CRSD-Commonwealth Legal Experts Committee, a group of twenty legal experts to advise on legal and governance structures to implement sustainable finance for small island developing states. With the Commonwealth Secretary General Baroness Patricia Scotland, Habib has written op-eds calling for more investment to help SIDS deal with climate change.