Larissa Abi Nakhle

VP of External Partnerships, IEEE Global Entrepreneurship

Larissa Abi Nakhle is Vice President of External Partnerships for IEEE Global Entrepreneurship, at ZAKA, the AI education and consulting company leading the field in preparing people and integrating them into the job market across the Middle East and North Africa. An IEEE member since 2016 with more than five years of experience in marketing and community-building for non-profit organizations, she served as treasurer and then chapter president for students at the American University of Beirut, and as vice chair of the Young Professionals affinity group in Lebanon, and in 2023 joined the Region 8 Women in Engineering team as coordinator for the student-branch support program.