Dr. Mohd Daud Bakar (Malaysia)

Dr. Mohd Daud Bakar is considered “the Kuala Lumpur-based rising star of Shariah scholars” by AsiaMoney.  He currently is the President/CEO of the International Institute of Islamic Finance and Amanie Business Solutions, a consulting firm providing Islamic advisory services to financial institutions and corporate clients. Dr. Daud also is the Chairman of the Central Shari’ah Advisory Council of the Central Bank of Malaysia and a member of the Shariah Advisory Council of the Malaysian Securities and Exchange Commission.  He is considered the leading authority on Islamic legal theory and Islamic finance in Malaysia.
   
A former Associate Professor in Islamic law and Deputy Rector, Student Affairs and Disciplines, at the International Islamic University Malaysia, Dr. Daud's areas of specialization include Islamic legal theory, Islamic banking and finance, and Islamic law of zakat. Dr. Daud is a member of numerous international Shariah Supervisory Boards, including the Dow Jones Islamic Market Indexes, HSBC (Malaysia), Unicorn Investment Bank (Bahrain), BNP Paribas, Oasis Asset Management, the Japan Bank for International Cooperation, the Shariah board of Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI) and others.
   
Dr Daud advises institutions around the world on capital market product structures such as sukuk. The Middle East North Africa Financial Network reports that Dr. Daud is “internationally recognized as an authority on Islamic finance."
   
Receiving his first degree in Shariah from the University of Kuwait in 1988, Dr Daud obtained his PhD from the University of St. Andrews in the United Kingdom in 1993. He went on to complete his external Bachelor of Jurisprudence at the University of Malaya in 2002. Often quoted and interviewed by global publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Dr. Daud has published more than 30 articles in various academic journals and presented more than 200 papers at various international conferences.