PhD Degree Awarded to Ms. Manar Al-Mahdali in Public Law

Ms. Manar Mohammed Nasser Ahmed Al-Mahdali was awarded a PhD degree in Public Law for her dissertation titled: The Supervisory Role of the Central Bank of Yemen in Combating Money Laundering‎, which was submitted to the Department of Public Law, Faculty of Sharia and Law–Sana’a University. The dissertation defense was held on Monday, May 11, 2026‎.
The PhD Viva-Voce Committee, which was formed based on a resolution issued by the Graduate Studies and Scientific Research Council, consisted of the following:

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Committee Members
Designation
Position

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Assoc. Prof. Mohammed Abdo Saeed Maghram
Internal Examiner
Chair

2
Assoc. Prof. Mohammed Ali Abdo Suleiman
Main Supervisor
Member

3
Assoc. Prof. Qaed Qaed Musaed Al-Asad
External Examiner
Member

The dissertation aimed to:
Monitor and analyze the supervisory and oversight system of the Central Bank of Yemen and identify its strengths and weaknesses.
Explore the impact of Yemen’s political and social environment on the performance of employees and regulators in the banking supervision sector and the Financial Information Unit.
Identify shortcomings, if any, in the current Yemeni Anti-Money Laundering Law.
Present an integrated strategic vision for decision-makers aimed at developing the institutional structure of the Central Bank in a manner that protects the national economy and enhances financial integrity.
The study yielded several key findings summarized as follows:
There is a gap between legal provisions and their practical implementation.
The effectiveness of Yemeni laws is being undermined by weak or absent oversight over their enforcement.
Preventive supervision in Yemen suffers from organizational shortcomings due to reliance on remedial oversight.
Field supervision in Yemen still depends on post-event paper-based inspection methods.
Violations are often detected only after the financial cycle has been completed and closed, causing supervision to lose its preventive and deterrent role.
In light of these findings, the researcher recommended the following:
Ensuring the neutrality of the banking sector and keeping it away from all political conflicts and disputes in the Republic of Yemen.
Working toward the unification of supervisory regulations and standards.
Requiring banks, financial institutions, and exchange companies to upgrade their systems and programs to include real-time monitoring mechanisms that generate immediate alerts when transactions exceed a customer’s normal consumption patterns.
Establishing a unified credit and compliance data center linking all financial entities to a national database that enables regulators to identify a customer’s total liabilities and activities across all banks simultaneously.
The dissertation defense was attended by a number of academics, researchers, and specialists, students, colleagues, and the researcher’s family.