)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
Professor Muneeza is a professor and the associate dean for students and internationalisation at INCEIF University in Malaysia, which is renowned as the global University of Islamic Finance. She has an extensive career, having served as the first female Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Islamic Affairs in the Maldives, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Finance and Treasury in the Maldives, and Head of Islamic Finance at the Capital Market Development Authority of the Maldives.
She has also been a member of the Islamic Fiqh Academy (National Fatawa Council of the Maldives), the first chairman of the Hajj pilgrimage fund at Maldives Hajj Corporation Limited, and the chairman of Maldives Center for Islamic Finance Limited. The government of the Maldives established the latter to position the country as the hub of Islamic finance in South Asia. Professor Muneeza has played key roles as an Islamic finance consultant, contributing to developing the first Shariah-compliant Islamic microfinance scheme in the Maldives.
Furthermore, she has served as the Shariah Advisor for structuring all corporate sukuk offerings in the Maldives and private sukuk and Islamic treasury instruments for the Maldivian government. Professor Muneeza was a consultant involved in drafting the legal framework for the country’s Islamic capital market.
)
Professor Muhammed-Shahid Ebrahim holds a Doctorate in Business Administration from Southern Illinois University, an MBA from the University of Wisconsin and an MSE from the University of Pennsylvania. His research is focused on financial development. This involves studying asset pricing and financial contracting, as applied to Islamic banking and finance, corporate finance and real estate finance. Prior to joining Durham he held the position as a Professor of Islamic banking and finance at the Bangor Business School and has previously held roles as a financial analyst/planner with the United Bank of Kuwait and IDS-American Express. Professor Ebrahim was a Research Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and Harvard University Islamic Finance Program. Professor Ebrahim has been the recipient of the Harwood Memorial Real Estate scholarship and Outstanding Faculty of Management Lecturer Award by the University of Brunei Darussalam. He co-authors with the well-known Nobel Prize winner Robert Shiller and has published numerous journal articles included in international prestigious publications such as the Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Corporate Finance and Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
)
)
)
)
)
)