DR. SYED MUSA ALHABSHI

AMANIE ISLAMIC FINANCE LEARNING CENTRE DIFC

As principal consultant with IIIF which provides advisory, research and training services to the Islamic financial industry, he has been involved in financial product design and development, professional module design and development as well as spearheading research for the Islamic Financial Services Industry. In addition he has also conducted training in the area of Accounting for Islamic Financial Institutions, Islamic Finance and Banking in both public seminars and in house training programs for various financial, audit, supervisory and rating institutions in London, Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. In setting the direction for the industry he had been appointed as a technical consultant with Centennial Group International where he was involved in developing Islamic Financial Services Board (IFSB) Prudential Standards. He had also served as a member of Accounting, Auditing and Governance Standards Board of Accounting Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI). In Malaysia he is currently a member of Malaysian Accounting Standards Board (MASB) Working Committee of Islamic Financial Reporting Standards. As an academic Dr. Syed Musa Alhabshi was an Associate Professor and Dean of Faculty of Business Administration, Tun Abdul Razak University (UNITAR) till February 2007. In postgraduate education he designed and developed doctoral and masters degree curriculum as well as graduate programs in both UNITAR and International Islamic University, Malaysia (IIUM). His teaching experience spans from undergraduate to postgraduate programs in the areas of accounting and finance with special focus in Islamic finance and accounting. He supervised doctoral students and has presented papers in both local and International Conferences as well as published papers in academic journals and related academic literature which includes areas on Performance and Efficiency of Islamic Financial Institutions and Foreign Investments, Accounting, Auditing, Governance, Risk Management, Performance Measurement and Zakat particularly for Islamic Financial Institutions. His early education was from Singapore where he obtained a Diploma in Business Studies from Ngee Ann Polytechnic. He then obtained first class honours degree in Bachelor of Business Administration (1989) from International Islamic University (IIUM), and conferred Bank Islam Malaysia Overall Best Student Award. He then proceeded to obtain Doctor of Business Administration (1994) (Accounting and Finance) from Strathclyde University, UK.