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Professor Humayon Dar is an Islamic economist, futurist, writer, shari’a advisor, academic entrepreneur, philosopher and a transformational thinker, specialising in Islamic banking and finance. He earned his name by working closely with some of the most influential shari’a scholars, families and financial institutions in the world. He used his academic credentials and structuring skills to offer tailor-made faith-based solutions to some leading families in the Middle East and Asia. Through his extensive network of contacts in politics, leading business families and financial institutions, he developed business opportunities for his clients both from the Western world and in the emerging economies of Asia.

Educated at Cambridge University and having been associated with a number of universities and academic institutions in the West and in the rest of the world, Humayon Dar has emerged as one of the foremost academic entrepreneurs in the world of higher education.

His tenure as a Managing Director at Deutsche Bank (where he served as CEO of its Islamic finance subsidiary) earned him name and fame in the field of faith-based structuring of financial products. He has advised global financial institutions like Allianz, Societe Generale, MSCI Barra, Nasdaq and local banks like Hong Leong Bank in Malaysia.

 

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Since 2007, Professor Humayon Dar has served as CEO of BMB Islamic  - an Islamic financial advisory and structuring subsidiary of the BMB Group.

 

Other engagements of Professor Dar include:

 

*      Membership of Board of Directors of the Arab British Chamber of Commerce, London (UK)

*      Member of International Advisory Board of New Horizon – flagship publication of the Institute of Islamic Banking & Insurance, London (UK)

*      Member of the Editorial Board of Review of Islamic Economics – flagship journal of the Association for Islamic Economics, Leicester (UK)

*      Member of the International Editorial Advisory Board of ISRA International Journal of Islamic Finance, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)

*      Member of the Editorial Board of International Journal of Islamic Financial Services

*      Visiting Professor of Islamic Finance at Universiti Teknologi Mara Malaysia

*      Senior Honorary Fellow in Islamic Finance at Cass Business School of City University London (UK)

*      Visiting Fellow in Islamic Finance at the University of Durham (UK)

*      Visiting Professor of Islamic Finance at Bahrain Institute of Banking and Finance

*      Visiting Professor of Islamic Finance at British Institute of Technology & E-commerce, London (UK)