The Board of Executive Directors (BED) is the body responsible for the direction of the general operations and policies of the Bank.
The BED is currently composed of nineteen members - ten Executive Directors appointed by their countries, which are the main shareholders, while nine others are elected by the Governors of other countries. The term of office for members of the BED is a renewable period of three years.
H.E. Dr. Hamad Sulaiman Albazai
Representing
- Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Hon. Bashir Ali Khallat
Representing
- State of Libya
Hon. Parjiono Cipto Widarto
Representing
- Republic of Indonesia
Hon. Dr. Mohammad Javad Sharifzadeh
Representing
- Islamic Republic of Iran
Hon. Ali Abdullah Sharafi
Representing
- United Arab Emirates
Hon. Dr. Mohammed Mahmoud ISA-DUTSE
Representing
- Federal Republic of Nigeria
Hon. Hamad Madi Al-Hajri
Representing
- State of Qatar
Hon. Dr. Nada Massoud
Representing
- Arab Republic of Egypt
Hon. Saad O. Alalati
Representing
- State of Kuwait
H.E. Osman Çelik
Representing
- Republic of Türkiye
Hon. Linis Francis Lendjoungou
Representing
- Republic of Uganda
- Republic of Chad
- Republic of Gabon
- Republic of Djibouti
- Union of Comoros
- Republic of Mozambique
- Federal Republic of Somalia
Hon. Diakaridia Dembele
Representing
- Burkina Faso
- Republic of Togo
- Republic of the Gambia
- Republic of Senegal
- Republic of Mali
- Republic of Niger
Hon. Alhassan Allie Mansaray
Representing
- Republic of Benin
- Republic of Guinea
- Republic of Guinea Bissau
- Republic of Sierra Leone
- Republic of Cameroon
- Republic of Côte d’Ivoire
Hon. Mohamed Sidya Cheikh Mohamed Sidina
Representing
- Republic of Tunisia
- People's Democratic Republic of Algeria
- Kingdom of Morocco
- Islamic Republic of Mauritania
Hon. Dr. Mahmoud F. A. Abualrub
Representing
- Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
- Syrian Arab Republic
- Republic of Iraq
- State of Palestine
- Republic of Lebanon
Hon. Zahir Marhoun Mohammed Al-Abri
Representing
- Kingdom of Bahrain
- Republic of Sudan
- Sultanate of Oman
- Republic of Yemen
Hon. Md. Shahriar Kader Siddiky
Representing
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Islamic Republic of Pakistan
- People's Republic of Bangladesh
- Republic of Maldives
Hon. Johan Mahmood Merican
Representing
- Brunei Darussalam
- Republic of Suriname
- Malaysia
- Cooperative Republic of Guyana
Hon. Endrit Lami
Representing
- Republic of Azerbaijan
- Republic of Albania
- Republic of Uzbekistan
- Turkmenistan
- Republic of Tajikistan
- Republic of Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyz Republic