H.E. Prof. Koutoub Moustapha Sano, Secretary General of IIFA, chaired the 117th weekly meeting of directors of IIFA’s department on Monday, 27 Jumada al-Akhirah, 1445, corresponding to 8 January 2024.

His Excellency welcomed participants and expressed his condolences to our colleague Mr. Mahmoud Muhammad Sanad, a former employee of the Academy. He then listed the deceased’s achievements through his dedication to his work during his service to the Academy, which spanned three decades. His Excellency then spoke of the importance of the newsletter, which is a mirror of IIFA and a link between the Secretariat General of IIFA and OIC’s members, experts, and its permanent delegations.

His Excellency then spoke of the need to draw up an integrated plan for holding the next session of the Academy this year while stressing the importance of starting preparations by contacting a number of scientific and financial institutions with which the General Secretariat of the Academy has signed cooperation agreements. On this occasion, His Excellency emphasized that the priority for organizing the session remains on the shoulders of Member States and that if this is not possible, it could be necessary to seek strategic partners from the private sector.

The meeting reviewed previous decisions and issued new decisions, namely:

• Submit a list of topics postponed from previous IIFA sessions for inclusion in future sessions.
• Submit a report on the translation of IIFA’s book of resolutions into various languages and a special report on the progress of the Turkish translation.