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Hadia is an engineer by training, she started her career in 1995 at the Egyptian Universities Network (EUN) Egypt's Top level domain, connecting academic and scientific sites to the Internet. She spent most of her career in Internet development related roles. During her tenure at the EUN, Hadia played a major role in helping academic sites design their networks and connect to the Internet. Throughout her career at the Egyptian Universities Network, Hadia took many roles and responsibilities, such as technical operations manager for .eg registry, IPv6 project manager, and foreign relations manager. In 2014, Hadia joined the National Hungarian Trading House in Budapest as deputy to the director of the Arab Countries Department and later as acting director.

Currently Hadia is the Chief Expert on International Policies at the National Telecom Regulatory Authority (NTRA) of Egypt. Hadia is an active member of the At-large community, she is AFRALO Chair, Co-Chair of the At-Large Consolidated Policy Working Group (CPWG) and the lead of the At-large Capacity Building Working Group (CBWG) workshops team. She has been a participant to several ICANN PDPs. Currently she is one of ALAC representatives to the EPDP on IDN gTLDs, previously she was one of ALAC two representatives to the EPDP on gTLD registration data. Hadia has been the pen holder of several AFRALO statements and ALAC public policy comments. Hadia is interested in Internet governance and has organised some sessions in previous AFIGFs and Global IGFs. Hadia is vice chair of the Middle East and Adjoining Countries (MEAC) Strategy Working Group and a member of the Middle East DNS Forum Program Committee.

Hadia holds a Bachelor of Science in Electronics and Communications from the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, a diploma in Engineering Management from the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University and a Masters of Science in Management and Leadership from St. Istivan University in Hungary.