After studying engineering at McGill in Canada, and graduating from HEC in Paris, Nayla Ibrahim started her career as a Strategy Consultant before taking over a position as Marketing and Development Director for a SME in a LBO. She later joined La Poste (French postal service) to develop its digital services, and modernisation and change management programmes for mail and parcel distribution.

In 2015, Nayla Ibrahim was hired by the IECD as Director of Operations in Lebanon, in order to deploy training and professional integration programmes for young people who have left the school system (refugees and Lebanese). More recently, she has worked on social entrepreneurship and incubator projects to encourage business creation.

In September 2019, Nayla Ibrahim joined the IECD head office in Paris and took over the position of Chief Development and Partnerships Officer.