- AML & Compliance
- Asset & Wealth Management
- Crisis Management
- Cyber Security
- Digitization
- HR
- Communications & Marketing
- International Standards
- Islamic Banking
- Legal Framework
- Retail & Investment Banking
- Sustainable Finance
- Treasurers
- Technical Sharia Standards Review
AML & Compliance
S.no | Name | Title | Bank | Designation |
1 | Head | |||
2 | Abeer Al Shehabi | Chief Compliance Officer | HSBC | Deputy |
3 | Ajeet Dawani | Head FCC – Bahrain & Middle East | SCB | Member |
4 | Alaa Al Hamad | Chief Compliance & Regulatory Affairs | Ila Bank | Member |
5 | Ali Al Khaja | Head of Compliance & MLRO | Al Salam Bank | Member |
6 | Ali Al Mahmood | Assistant Manager – Compliance Department | KFH | Member |
7 | Bader Isa Alshetti | Senior Manager – MLRO & Head of Compliance | Al Baraka Islamic | Member |
8 | Zoe Karali | Head CFCC – Bahrain & Middle East | SCB | Member |
9 | Boby Antony Joseph | Head of Compliance & MLRO | State Bank of India | Member |
10 | Faisal Jamil | Head of Compliance | Habib Bank | Member |
11 | Fajer Sami Al Busmait | Head of Compliance | KHCB | Member |
12 | Hisham Khattab | VP – Country Head of Compliance & MLRO | Arab Bank | Member |
13 | Luay Yaqoob Seyadi | Head – Banking Operations | Ithmaar Bank | Member |
14 | Mahmood Muslim | Head of Compliance & MLRO | Credimax | Member |
15 | Maryam Kamal | Compliance Manager | Benefit | Member |
16 | Mohammed Juma | Head of Compliance & AML | SICO | Member |
17 | Nader Mahmood | Senior Vice President – Group Head of Compliance & MLRO Mgt. | ABG | Member |
18 | Nabeela Janahi | AML Consultant | GIB | Member |
19 | Nadine Al-Shirawi | Head of Compliance and MLRO | BBK | Member |
20 | Pieter Vos | Group Head of Financial Crime Compliance | Bank ABC | Member |
21 | Rana Qamber | Group Chief Compliance Officer | NBB | Member |
22 | Rohit Abbey | VP – Regulatory Affairs & Chief Compliance Officer | AMEX | Member |
23 | Warif Kanaan | Chief Country Compliance Officer | Citibank | Member |
24 | Zahra Qassim | Customer Expireance & Process and Governance | BISB | Member |
Asset & Wealth Management
S.no | Name | Title | Bank | Designation |
1 | Ahmed A W Abdulla | Head of Premier and Seef Branch | HSBC | Member |
2 | Abdulhadi Shahadah | Head of Asset Management, GIB Capital | GIB | Member |
3 | Ali Qassim | Head of Private Banking | Al Salam Bank | Member |
4 | Amal Alrayes | Head of Products and Administration Unit – Wealth Mgt | KFH | Member |
5 | Christoph Geidner | Consumer Busiess Head | Citibank | Member |
6 | Hussam Saif | AGM – Treasury & Investments | KHCB | Member |
7 | Karim El SHERIF | Senior Portfolio Manager | Bank ABC | Member |
8 | Kunal Varma | Head, Consumer, Private, Business Banking Bahrain & ME | SCB | Member |
9 | Maysan Almaskati | Head – Asset Management | Ithmaar Bank | Member |
10 | Mohamed AlRayes | Head of Investment and Private Banking | BBK | Member |
11 | Raghavendra S H | Asst. Vice President (NRI Services) | State Bank of India | Member |
12 | Salman AlSairafi | Head of Global Makets | SICO | Member |
13 | Shakeel Sarwar | Head of Equity Asset Management | SICO | Member |
Crisis Management
S.no | Name | Title | Bank | Designation |
1 | Abdulkarim Al Zakari | Chief Risk Officer | KHCB | Member |
2 | Ahmed Janahi | Head – Risk Management | Ithmaar Bank | Member |
3 | Anantha Narayanan | Chief Operating Officer | SICO | Member |
4 | Ayman Jasim Mohamed | Manager – Risk Management (Complaints Officer) | Al Baraka Islamic | Member |
5 | Ebrahim AlShakhoori | Head of Property, Middle East | SCB | Member |
6 | Eyad Omar | Country Operational Risk Manager | Arab Bank | Member |
7 | Hassan Muhi | Operational Risk and Information Security Assistant Manager | KFH | Member |
8 | Isa Maseeh | Group Chief Risk Officer | NBB | Member |
9 | Ismail Mokhtar | Group Chief Operating Officer | Bank ABC | Member |
10 | Krishnan Hariharan | CRO | Al Salam Bank | Member |
11 | Mohamed Bucheeri | Head of IT Operations | BBK | Member |
12 | Mohamed Malalla | Information Security Manager | Ila Bank | Member |
13 | Mohammed Amin | Citi Security and Investigative Services Head | Citibank | Member |
14 | Nader Al Sari | Chief Credit Officer | GIB | Member |
15 | Reyadh AlMearaj | AGM-IT | Benefit | Member |
16 | Salman Abdulla | Head of Information Technology Dept | Credimax | Member |
17 | Samir M Rabadi | Chief Operating Officer | HSBC | Member |
18 | Vijay Kumar Soni | Vice President (Operations & Services) | State Bank of India | Member |
Cyber Security
S.no | Name | Title | Bank | Designation |
1 | Abdulkarim Al Zakari | Chief Risk Officer | KHCB | Member |
2 | Ahmed Samahiji | Manager IT | Habib Bank Ltd. | Member |
3 | Member | |||
4 | Ali Beshra | Head of Information Security & Risk Management | Benefit | Member |
5 | Ali Khalfan | Head of Information Security | Al Salam Bank | Member |
6 | Ali Almajed | Group Chief Information Security Officer | NBB | Member |
7 | Gert Du Preez | Regional Head of Corporate Security | AMEX | Member |
8 | Hassan Muhi | Operational Risk and Information Security Assistant Manager | KFH | Member |
9 | Hemantha Wijesinghe | CTO | Al Salam Bank | Member |
10 | Jose George | Head of Information Security | GIB | Member |
11 | Khalid Waheed Abdulla | Chief Information Security Officer | Al Baraka Islamic | Member |
12 | Mahmood Al Radhi | Head of IT | Arab Bank | Member |
13 | Mohamed Jamsheer | First Vice President – IT | ABG | Member |
14 | Mohamed Malalla | Information Security Manager | Ila Bank | Member |
15 | Mohammed Ibrahim | Head of Information Technology | SICO | Member |
16 | Nelson Villate | Group Chief Information Security Officer | Bank ABC | Member |
17 | Rashid Hidayat | Business Information Security Officer | Citibank | Member |
18 | Salman Abdulla | Head of Information Technology Dept | Credimax | Member |
19 | Samer Hanna | Chief Risk Officer, Middle East | SCB | Member |
20 | Vipin Vidhyadharan | Asst. Vice President (Systems) | State Bank of India | Member |
Digitization
S.no | Name | Title | Bank | Designation |
1 | Ahmed Al Mehri | Senior Manager | Benefit | Member |
2 | Rafed Al-Mannai | Head of Product Management & Business Alliances | Ithmaar Bank | Member |
3 | Ali AlMeshal | Head of Digital Business Innovation | Credimax | Member |
4 | Ali Althaqafi | Assistant Manager – Digital Transformation Unit | Al Baraka Islamic | Member |
5 | Ali Ghuloom | Head of Digitization | NBB | Member |
6 | Anantha Narayanan | Chief Operating Officer | SICO | Member |
7 | Dilshad Majeed | Technology Head | Citibank | Member |
8 | Member | |||
9 | Dr Wajeeha Awadh | Chief Digital Officer | ABG | Member |
10 | Dr. Yousif Almas | Group Chief Innovation Officer | Bank ABC | Member |
11 | Jeb Million | VP – Chief Information & Digital Officer | AMEX | Member |
12 | Kunal Varma | Head, Consumer, Private, Business Banking – Bahrain & ME | SCB | Member |
13 | Maisa J Shunnar | Chief Digital Transformation | BisB | Member |
14 | Marwan Alsabbagh | Head of IT | KFH | Member |
15 | Mohammed Al Shehabi | Head of Innovation | Al Salam Bank | Member |
16 | Mohammed Ibrahim | Head of Information Technology | SICO | Member |
17 | Nada Tarada | Head of Business and Customer | Ila Bank | Member |
18 | Vidhu Mittal | Head of IT Development | BBK | Member |
19 | Vikas Sethi | Acting Chief Digital Officer | GIB | Member |
20 | Vipin Vidhyadharan | Asst. Vice President (Systems) | State Bank of India | Member |
21 | Member |
Human Resources
S.no | Name | Title | Bank | Designation |
1 | Afnan Ahmed Saleh | Chief of Human Resources & Admin | BisB | Head |
2 | Tahera Al Alawi | Assistant Vice President, HR & Administration Manager | Mashreq Bank | Deputy |
3 | Adel Al Abbasi | Head of HR & Administration | Bank ABC | Member |
4 | Dana Al Mahal | HR Generalist | Ila Bank | Member |
5 | Abdulla Suwaileh | Senior Manager – Head of Human Resources & Administration | Al Baraka Islamic | Member |
6 | Enas Rahimi | Head – HR | Ithmaar Bank | Member |
7 | Fareed Khan | Head of Human Resources | Habib Bank Ltd. | Member |
8 | Fatema Ahmed Al Binali | Head of Human Resources | KHCB | Member |
9 | Hawra A Murad | Country Head of Human Resources | HSBC | Member |
10 | Helen Lloyd | Chief Human Resources Officer | GIB | Member |
11 | Krishna Kant Sharma | Asst. Vice President (HR & CFO) | State Bank of India | Member |
12 | Latifa Khalfan | Head of Human Resources | Credimax | Member |
13 | Moahmmed Salem | Islamic Business Development and Sharia Reviewer | BBK | Member |
14 | Muna Al Balooshi | Head of HR & administration | Al Salam Bank | Member |
15 | Nacira Frdjoukh | Head of Human Resources | Citibank | Member |
16 | Najwa Al Ahmed | Department Head – Human Resources | BBK | Member |
17 | Ruth Simuyemba | Head of Human Resources – Bahrain | SCB | Member |
18 | Salah AlAwadhi | Head of HR & Administration | Benefit | Member |
19 | Sara Zainalabedin | Head of HR | KFH | Member |
20 | Member |
Communications & Marketing
S.no | Name | Title | Bank | Designation |
1 | Adel Al-Kooheji | PR & Corporate Communication Manager | Benefit | Member |
2 | Mahmood Qannati | Head of Marketing & Communications | Al Salam Bank | Member |
3 | Nadeen Oweis | Head of Corporate Communications | SICO | Member |
4 | Mohamed Alqassimi | NBB | Member | |
5 | Noora Al Nusuf | Head Corporate Affairs & Brand & Marketing – Bahrain & ME | SCB | Member |
6 | Rafa Kaddoura | Department Head – Corporate Communication | BBK | Member |
7 | Raghavendra S H | Asst. Vice President (NRI Services) | State Bank of India | Member |
8 | Subah Al Zayani | Head of Marketing & Corporate Communications | KHCB | Member |
International Standards
S.no | Name | Title | Bank | Designation |
1 | Aman Ullah Khan | Financial Controller | KHCB | Member |
2 | Asif Saherwala | Group Head of Financial Control | GIB | Member |
3 | Ewan Stirling | GM- International Banking | BBK | Member |
4 | Gaby El Hakim | Group Chief Legal Officer | NBB | Member |
5 | Krishna Kant Sharma | Asst. Vice President (HR & CFO) | State Bank of India | Member |
6 | Layla Alqassab | Chief Financial Officer | Benefit | Member |
7 | Mahmood Taheri | Head Financial Accounting & Reporting | BBk | Member |
8 | MN Ramkumar | Group Chief Accountant | Bank ABC | Member |
9 | Mohammed Arooj | Senior Manager, Financial Control | KFH | Member |
10 | Saqib Mustafa | Head – Financial Control | Ithmaar Bank | Member |
11 | Shaikha Tareef | CFO – Bahrain & Middle East | SCB | Member |
12 | Shyam Krishnan | Chief Financial Officer | SICO | Member |
13 | Yousif Ebrahim | CFO | Al Salam Bank | Member |
14 | Zahra Jamali | Chief Finance Officer | Citibank | Member |
Islamic Banking
S.no | Name | Title | Bank | Designation |
1 | Ahmed Murad | Head of Corporate Banking | Al Salam Bank | Member |
2 | Amal Saif Ahmed | Islamic Finance Manager | BisB | Member |
3 | Ameer Abdul Ghani Shabaan | Chief Financial Control | BisB | Member |
4 | Duaij Khalifa Abulfath | Senior Manager – Head of Internal Sharia Audit | Al Baraka Islamic | Member |
5 | Ebrahim Khalil Jassim | Head – Commercial & FI | Ithmaar Bank | Member |
6 | Hamad Buchiri | Head, Royal Family Unit & Islamic Banking | SCB | Member |
7 | Iftikhar Ali | Deputy Head of Islamic Banking & Deputy Managing Director | Bank ABC | Member |
8 | Imad Ali | Chief Executive Officer for Citi Islamic Investment Bank | Citibank | Member |
9 | Jawad Abdulhadi Humaidan | Head of Corporate Banking | BisB | Member |
10 | Ahmed Darwish | Chief Executive Officer | BOK International | Member |
11 | Moahmmed Salem | Islamic Business Development and Sharia Reviewer | BBK | Member |
12 | Mohammed Al-Mahmood | First Vice President – Head of Internal Sharia Audit | ABG | Member |
13 | Rashid Alkhan | Senior Manager, Head of Wealth Management | KFH | Member |
14 | Rauf Ahmed | Head of Shariah Compliant Banking | GIB | Member |
15 | Sh. Abdulnasser Al Mahmood | Head of Sharia’a Coordination & Implementation | KHCB | Member |
Legal Framework
S.no | Name | Title | Bank | Designation |
1 | Deena Alhilli | Head, Legal – Bahrain | SCB | Head |
2 | Qassim Taqawi | General Counsel | Al Salam Bank | Deputy |
3 | Eman Ali | Senior Manager – Legal Department | KFH | Member |
4 | Fasih Khan | Assistant General Counsel | Citibank | Member |
5 | Fatema Mufeez | Head – Legal | Ithmaar Bank | Member |
6 | Federica Piazza | Regional Head of Regulatory Affairs | AMEX | Member |
7 | Mashael Ebrahim Matar | Senior Legal Counsel – Legal | NBB | Member |
8 | Hisham Al Wazeer | Legal Counsel | BBK | Member |
9 | Manar Saleh | Legal & Corporate Secretary | Benefit | Member |
10 | Abdelkhalig Shaib | Counsel and Board Secretary, Group Legal | Bank ABC | Member |
11 | Ramnath Narayanan | Head of Legal | GIB | Member |
12 | Shaikha Ahmed | Senior Legal Manager | KHCB | Member |
13 | Simone Del Nevo | Head of Legal Affairs | SICO | Member |
14 | Mirna M. ElAchkar | Regional Head of Legal Services | AUB | Member |
Retail & Investment Banking
S.no | Name | Title | Bank | Designation |
1 | Ali Khalil Alderzi | Senior Manager – Head of Branches | Al Baraka Islamic | Member |
2 | Abdulnasser Al Rayes | Head of Retail Banking | KHCB | Member |
3 | Ali Al Aradi | Head of Branches and Sales | BisB | Member |
4 | Dr. Adel Salem | GM Retail | BBK | Member |
5 | G S Pallavi | Vice President (Retail Banking) | State Bank of India | Member |
6 | Hamed Mishal | Head of retail Banking | KFH | Member |
7 | Kunal Varma | Head, Consumer, Private, Business Banking – Bahrain & Middle East | SCB | Member |
8 | Mohammed Buhijji | Head of Retail Banking | Al Salam Bank | Member |
9 | Nada Tarada | Head of Business | ila Bank | Member |
10 | Shafaq Alkooheji | Head-Payment services | Benifit | Member |
11 | Shakofa Asghar | Head of Wealth and Personal Banking | HSBC | Member |
12 | Subah Al Zayani | Chief Executive – Retail Banking | NBB | Member |
13 | Talal Ahmed | Area Manager, Retail Banking | GIB | Member |
14 | Wissam Al Hadad | Head of Investment Banking & Real Estate | SICO | Member |
15 | Yasser Hamsa | Head – Branch Network | Ithmaar Bank | Member |
Sustainable Finance
S.no | Name | Title | Bank | Designation |
1 | Ahmed Burashid | Head of Corporate Banking & Debt Capital Markets | KHCB | Member |
2 | Ali Tariq | Head of Global Trade & Receivable Finance | HSBC | Member |
3 | Ameera Al Abbasi | Head of Business Banking | KHCB | Member |
4 | Anthony Williams | VP, Risk Governance and Analytics | Bank ABC | Member |
5 | Dr. Ali Adnan Ibrahim | First Vice President – Head of Social & Sustainable Finance | ABG | Member |
6 | Dr. Boutros Klink | CEO – Middle East & Bahrain | SCB | Member |
7 | Hanadi Araik | Corporate Communications Manager | GIB | Member |
8 | Hisham Al Kurdi | Chief Executive Corporate | NBB | Member |
9 | Mazar Jalal | Deputy COO | Al Salam Bank | Member |
10 | Venetia Bell | Group Chief Sustainability Officer | GIB | Member |
11 | Vipul Modi | Department Head – Credit Advisory Services, Corporate Banking | BBK | Member |
12 | Wissam Al Hadad | Head of Investment Banking & Real Estate | SICO | Member |
13 | Yaqoob Alhammar | Assistant Supervisor, Corporate Banking Group | KFH | Member |
14 | Zied Jalali | Head of Structured Finance | NBB | Member |
Treasurers
S.no | Name | Title | Bank | Designation |
1 | Mazen Ladki | Head of Corporate Treasury | Bank ABC | Head |
2 | Roomi Siddiqui | Head, Treasury Markets – Middle East | SCB | Deputy |
3 | Hamad Al Bassam | Assistant Manager – Treasury & Capital Markets | KFH | Member |
4 | Hisham Al Kurdi | Chief Executive Corporate | NBB | Member |
5 | Hussain A.Haq | Head of Treasury & Capital Markets | Al Salam Bank | Member |
6 | Hussain Najati | Head of Treasury | SICO | Member |
7 | Hussain Toorani | Head of Treasury | BBK | Member |
8 | Hussam Saif | AGM – Treasury & Investments | KHCB | Member |
9 | Suhail Tohami | Senior Vice President – Head of Treasury & Investments | ABG | Member |
10 | Eduard Smiesko | Head of Client Solutions Desk | GIB | Member |
11 | Mohamed Ali Qudrat | Senior Manager – Head of Treasury | Al Baraka Islamic | Member |
12 | Rashid Fikri | Head – Treasury | Ithmaar Bank | Member |
13 | Faizan Alam Farooqui | Manager Treasury – Retail & Wholesale | Habib Bank Ltd. | Member |
14 | Sara Abdulhadi | Group Chief Investment and Treasury Officer | GIB | Member |
15 | Suhail Tohami | Senior Vice President – Head of Treasury & Investments | ABG | Member |
Technical Sharia Standards Review
S.no | Name | Title | Bank | Designation |
1 | Dr. El Tigani Mohammed | Vice President Sharia Officer – Secretary of the Unified Sharia Board | ABG | Member |
2 | Dr. Mohammed Arbouna | Head of Sharia’a Compliance | Al Salam Bank | Member |
3 | Hamad Al Shaikh | Head of Sharia Coordination & Implementation | BisB | Member |
4 | Imad Ali | Chief Executive Officer for Citi Islamic Investment Bank | CitiBank | Member |
5 | Mohamed Abderrezak | Group Sharia Compliance Officer | Bank ABC | Member |
6 | Mohammed Jassim | Sharia Officer & Secretary of the Sharia Supervisory Board | Al Baraka Islamic | Member |
7 | Mohammed Salem | Islamic Business Development and Sharia Reviewer | BBK | Member |
8 | Nawaf Al Hosani | Head of Internal Sharia’a Audit | KHCB | Member |
9 | Rauf Ahmed | Head of Shariah Compliant Banking | GIB | Member |
10 | Sh. Adel Al Marzooqi | Head – Sharia Compliance | Ithmaar Bank | Member |
11 | Tariq Mufareh | Manager – Internal Shari’a Audit | KFH | Member |