Abdelilah Belatik

Secretary General at the General Council for Islamic Banks and Financial Institutions

Dr. Abdelilah Belatik was appointed to the Stakeholders Advisory Council in January 2024. He was nominated to this position by the General Council for Islamic Banks and Financial Institutions (CIBAFI).

Dr. Belatik currently serves as the Secretary General of CIBAFI, a role he has held since March 2014. Prior to this, he was the Assistant Secretary General at the Islamic Financial Services Board in Malaysia from 2010-2014. Dr. Belatik also has extensive experience in the private sector, having worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Luxembourg, New York and Hong Kong from 2001-2009.

Dr. Belatik's influence extends beyond CIBAFI as he is the founding president of Turritopsis, the Strategic Institute for Sustainable Development, Brussels, Belgium. In addition to the Stakeholder Advisory Council, Dr. Belatik holds memberships on several other international boards and advisory groups. These include the Public Interest Monitoring Consultative Committee of AAOIFI, the IASB Advisory Group on Islamic Finance, and the Arab Authority of Agricultural Investment and Development (AAAID), UAE. He is also an Independent non-executive director on the Board of Trustees of the Waqf Fund at the Central Bank of Bahrain.

Dr. Belatik holds a Doctor of Business Administration degree and a Master of Applied Business Research from Switzerland. He also earned a Master of Science in Business Engineering and a Bachelor of Arts in Commercial Sciences from Brussels, Belgium.