Gibril Faal

Gibril Faal - AFFORD

Gibril Faal is the chairman of the African Foundation for Development (AFFORD); founder of RemitAid™ – a programme to transform remittances into a sustainable form of international development finance using tax reliefs and other macroeconomic policies; and director of GK Partners – a UK-based company that advises socially responsible businesses on ethical business models, social enterprise, legal structures, ethical and Islamic finance, corporate responsibility etc. He is a board member of the EC-UN Joint Migration & Development Initiative (JMDI); board member of DFID’s Global Poverty Action Fund (GPAF); special adviser to the Institute of Islamic Banking & Insurance.