Manama : A dnan Ahmed Yousif, President and Chief Executive of Al Baraka Banking Group B.S.C (ABG) has been named as the winner of the Global Islamic Finance Award (GIFA). He was elected to receive the award for Islamic Finance Personality of 2017 for his pan-Islamic leadership r
Manama : Adnan Ahmed Yousif, President and Chief Executive of Al Baraka Banking Group B.S.C (ABG) has been named as the winner of the Global Islamic Finance Award (GIFA).
He was elected to receive the award for Islamic Finance Personality of 2017 for his pan-Islamic leadership role in Islamic banking and finance.
The event was held in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan in the presence of Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan, Ismail Omar Guelleh, President of Djibouti, government leaders, ministers, ambassadors and Islamic banking leaders around the world on 6th September 2017.
Commenting on the award, Adnan Ahmed Yousif said: “I consider this achievement is not personally to me, but also an achievement for the Kingdom of Bahrain, which devoted a long and rich experience in Islamic and international banking field, that created favourable conditions for the emergence of banking leaders.”
GIFA, which is an annual event launched since 2011, is one of the most important international awards in the Islamic financial industry, and is awarded to outstanding institutions and individuals in this field.
