Eng. Hebah Abbas is a national resilience and infrastructure strategist with over two decades of engineering and cross-sector leadership spanning government, the private sector, and civil society. Her expertise bridges strategic infrastructure planning, water security, environmental sustainability, and smart utilities, advancing integrated frameworks that connect critical systems rather than addressing them in isolation.

She serves as Chief Engineer within Strategic Planning and Educational Facilities Infrastructure at Kuwait’s Ministry of Education, integrating resilience and sustainability into national educational infrastructure planning. In parallel, she chairs the Sustainability Committee and serves as Technical Advisor at the Kuwait Water Association, advancing systems-based approaches to water security and utility resilience. She is also the architect of the SHIELD Protocol, a strategic framework designed to embed national security considerations into critical infrastructure planning and design from the outset.

Bridging engineering practice and academia, she serves as an External Member of the Engineering Industrial Advisory Board at the Australian University in Kuwait and as National Coordinator of the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) Bureau in Kuwait, strengthening technical capacity, environmental education, and sustainability engagement.

Internationally, she is a member of the Water Positive Think Tank and has contributed to the Arab Digital Roadmap 2025–2030 under the League of Arab States. She was among Kuwait’s inaugural national cohort trained in climate negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

As a contributing columnist for Xinhua News Agency and a recurring guest on Kuwait national television, including Good Morning Kuwait, she brings engineering, water security, infrastructure resilience, and strategic development into wider international and public discourse.

Her work advances whole-of-system strategies positioning critical infrastructure, water security, and sustainability at the heart of national resilience, sovereign continuity, and long-term development.