Adeela Abdulla

Adeela Abdulla is an Indian Administrative Service officer (Kerala cadre, 2012 batch) and the Director of the Agriculture Development and Farmers' Welfare Department. She was the former Director of the Women and Child Development Department and also served as the Gender Park CEO and State Lottery Department Director. She was the first CEO of Life Mission, a public housing mission in the state. She briefly held the additional charge of Registrar of Cooperative Societies. She was the first Muslim woman to pass the Civil Service Examination from Malabar (Kerala). Adeela was the Managing Director of Vizhinjam Port during the port's inauguration and when the first ship was berthed. She also handled the Kerala Solid Waste Management Project, an ADB-assisted project for waste management in the state.