Dr. Amal Idrissi

Dr. Amal Idrissi is the Executive Director of the Moroccan SME Observatory, hosted by Bank Al-Maghrib (the Central Bank of Morocco), where she leads the development of Morocco's national administrative MSME data ecosystem in support of financial inclusion, SME finance, and evidence-based policymaking.

With over 20 years of experience, Dr. Idrissi combines executive leadership with expertise in administrative data systems, gender-disaggregated data, AI-driven analytics, and data governance. Prior to her current role, she served as Director of the Statistics Department at Bank Al-Maghrib and held senior leadership positions at IBM France in Business Intelligence & Data Mining.

She has led strategic partnerships with the World Bank, IFC, EBRD, AFI, and OECD, including Morocco's gender-disaggregated finance monitoring framework and a joint research programme with the Harvard Kennedy School Growth Lab and UM6P. Dr. Idrissi holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics & Statistics from Sorbonne Université, an Engineering Degree in Applied Mathematics from Polytech Lyon, and completed Executive Education at the Harvard Kennedy School.