Jehad El-Nakla

Dr. Jehad El-Nakla is currently the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Al Baraka Bank Sudan, an Independent Board Member of Al Baraka Banking Group (ABG), and a non-executive Board Member of Jordan Islamic Bank. He is also a Senior Advisor at Acreditus Partners, which is a boutique advisory service covering risk, governance, credit ratings, and Sukuk.

Prior to this, he served as the General Manager of Moody’s Investors Service Middle East (Moody’s Credit Rating Agency) in Dubai from November 2007 until March 2020. Dr. El-Nakla also served on the boards of three of Moody’s subsidiaries in Egypt, Cyprus, and the UAE. Prior to Moody’s, he was a Deputy General Manager at Arab National Bank in Riyadh.

Dr. El-Nakla has over thirty years of experience in mixed commercial banking and credit rating agencies at senior levels as well as possessing strong credit, risk management, and financial analysis skills. Dr. El-Naka has a Ph.D. degree in Numerical Analysis from Loughborough University in the UK.