Ahmed Ag Aboubacrine is a seasoned development leader and results management specialist with over two decades of experience in Africa, Asia, MENA, and North America. He has gained proven knowledge and mastery in public sector financing, private sector development, Islamic finance and development nexus.

Before assuming the role of Head of Regional Hub of IsDB Group for North Africa, covering Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco, Libya, and Tunisia, he was Acting Director of the Independent Evaluation Department at IsDB and Manager for the Corporate, Country and Thematic Evaluation Division from January 2023 to January 2025. Prior to that, he was the IsDB's President’s Principal Executive Assistant (PEA) for Corporate Affairs from March 2021 to January 2023. He managed the corporate affairs cluster of the Executive Office of the President (EOP) to support the President in continuously improving the Bank’s corporate business management, delivery performance, and its policies, and processes. His role included leading a team of corporate management experts that identifies and facilitates tackling the critical systemic and structural issues.
 

From 2018 - 2021, he worked on advising private clients in business development and structured finance and international NGOs on strategy management and design, resource mobilization, quality assurance systems, results management, and capacity development in MEAL. From 2010 to 2018, he joined the IsDB Group in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where he held several leadership positions in streamlining development effectiveness policies and guidelines and also in staff coaching and mentoring. He specialized in design, accountability, and learning systems in both the public and private sectors. He also regularly advised senior management and country teams on corporate strategy, quality assurance, and performance management.

From 2010 to 2018, Ahmed led / contributed to evaluations of multi-billion-dollar projects, programs, sector, and country strategies funded by IsDB Group in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. During his tenure at IsDB, Ahmed introduced and led the MCPS implementation reviews in 12 countries (Turkey, Uganda, Senegal, Kazakhstan, Bangladesh, Chad, Niger, Morocco, Mauritania, Suriname, Pakistan, and Tunisia). He played a key role in major innovation and breakthrough initiatives in the Bank, including quality assurance at entry, evaluability, self-evaluation (including at ICD, ITFC and ICIEC), 40-Year Assessment of IsDB Group, diversification of independent evaluation scope and increased knowledge dissemination. He also contributed to the introduction of private sector evaluation standards and facilitated their streamlining in the IsDB Group (ICD, ITFC, ICIEC, ISFD)

From 2002 to 2010, Ahmed worked for CARE International in Mali, Burundi, Sierra Leone, and Liberia playing a critical role in evaluation capacity building, country and sectoral programs’ quality, and impact measurement. At CARE, he successfully ensured the M&E for projects funded by USAID, EU, Norway, DFID, CIDA, World Bank, UNICEF, and various U.S. foundations. Ahmed has an associate degree in mathematics, a bachelor’s degree in statistics, master’s degree in decision making and holds a certificate in Leadership Decision Making from Harvard Kennedy School. He was selected among the 2020 AILA International Fellows of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Washington DC, USA. He is also Certified in Fundraising Management (CFRM) from the Lily School of Philanthropy, Indiana University, USA. Ahmed is an active member of several scientific societies and philanthropic organizations.