Manahil Huda
Education
- MSc in Product Service Systems Design (110/110 cum laude), Politecnico di Milano, Italy (Sep 2022–Jul 2024) — Thesis: Applying Service Design and Systemic Design to the Elections in Pakistan; Politecnico di Milano Merit Scholarship and DSU Scholarship recipient
- Mevlana Exchange Student, Department of Industrial Design, Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey (Sep 2015–Jul 2016)
- Bachelor of Industrial Design (CGPA 3.56/4), National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan (Sep 2013–Jul 2017) — President’s Gold Medal for First Position in Academics; High Achiever’s Award; NUST Merit Scholarship
Biography
Manahil Huda has been Lecturer in Communication and Design at Habib University and Assistant Director of IDEAL (the university’s design and innovation center) since September 2025. She joins Habib from Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco, where she was Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities (August–December 2024), designing and teaching Design Thinking, Introduction to Design Thinking, Designing for the Environment, and Islamic Art & Architecture.
She previously held a Dean’s Fellowship and Lecturer position at Habib, where she received the university’s Teaching Excellence Award (2021) for the Transdisciplinary Design Practicum course, and was involved with Habib’s Playground initiative and Center for Pedagogical Excellence and Innovation (CPE) from 2020 to 2021, presenting on remote teaching during COVID-19, streets as public space, and applying for design jobs in Pakistan. She completed her MSc in Product Service Systems Design at Politecnico di Milano (2022–2024) with distinction, and her thesis applied service and systemic design methods to Pakistan’s electoral processes.
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