Dr. Ahmed Muhammad Ali Al-Madani is the first president of the Islamic Development Bank, where he served as its president since 1975. He was born in Medina in 1934.

He holds a bachelor's degree in commerce and a bachelor's degree in law from Cairo University in Egypt, a master's degree in arts from Ann Arbor University in Michigan, the United States of America in 1962, and a doctorate in philosophy from the State University of New York in the United States of America in 1967.

He worked in various positions in the Ministry of Education starting in 1957. He also served as Acting President of King Abdulaziz University (1967 - 1972), and Undersecretary of the Ministry of Education for Technical Affairs (1972 - 1975). He also assumed the position of Secretary-General of the Muslim World League in 1995.