His Excellency Professor Dr. Koutoub Moustapha Sano, Secretary-General of the Academy, chaired the 57th monthly meeting of the Academy’s staff, which was held on Wednesday, 19 Rabi’ al-Thani 1447 AH, corresponding to October 1, 2025, at the General Secretariat headquarters in Jeddah.

His Excellency opened the meeting by welcoming the attendees and expressing his gratitude to Mr. Khalid Al-Ahmadi, Director of Financial and Administrative Affairs, for serving as Acting Secretary-General during his leave. He emphasized the importance of this monthly meeting in fostering effective institutional communication and encouraging the exchange of constructive ideas and proposals among all Academy staff.

His Excellency also spoke about his recent external engagements, including Participation in the Muslim World League’s Conference on Religious Leadership in Malaysia, where he chaired a scholarly session during the First Jurists Forum organized by the League in Kuala Lumpur. He also had Meetings with officials from the Malaysian Ministry of Religious Affairs to discuss arrangements for the upcoming Academy session in Malaysia and participation in the “Moral Values Along the Silk Road” Conference held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on September 4–5, 2025. Finally, he participated in the “Ethics of Artificial Intelligence” Conference organized by Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar, during which a Memorandum of Cooperation was signed between the Academy and the Qatari Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs.

As the meeting was designated as a space for dialogue among Academy staff, addressing challenges, and presenting proposals to enhance the Academy’s work, several key decisions were made, including:

• Sending the Academy’s publications to partner institutions with which Memoranda of Understanding were recently signed, and distributing the latest issue of the Academy’s journal to scholars and universities.
• Referring the Academy’s publications to specialists to convert them into digital formats in preparation for supervised online publication.
• Preparing a comprehensive report on the Academy’s activities and programs for the year 2024, in both English and French.
• Reviewing the Academy’s Biographical Dictionary, and sending it for printing in its final version.
• Circulating the strategic five-year plan evaluation file to all departments for review, in preparation for a dedicated session to discuss it.