Ahmed Ali Siddiqui

Mr. Ahmed Ali Siddiqui is the Founding Director of IBA Centre of Islamic Finance with over 21 years of rich Islamic banking experience and is being involved in pioneering work in the field of Islamic finance in Pakistan. His major areas of interest are Shariah Compliant product development, Sovereign Sukuk & deal structuring, development of innovative solutions for retail, formulation of policy guidelines, Shariah Audit, applicative research & Islamic financial advisory services. Mr. Siddiqui holds a Bachelors & Masters degree in Business Administration from Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi. He also holds the post of Senior Executive Vice President & Group Head of Shariah Compliance (SCD) & Secretary Shari’ah Board at Meezan Bank and leading one of the largest Research departments in the Islamic banking world. He is also the Founding Trustee of Ihsan Trust, one the Pakistan leading interest free loan providing Waqf for higher education. Mr. Siddiqui is also leading the Joint Financial Advisors team to the Government of Pakistan for Issuance of Local currency Sovereign Sukuk & Islamic financing transactions and has advised the government in structuring and issuance of Sukuk/Islamic transactions of over US $ 13 billion dollars. He has served and is also a member of several task forces at the Central Bank level related to Islamic banking products, Islamic banking regulations, governance framework, Accounting disclosures and Adoption of AAOIFI Shariah Standards. Mr. Siddiqui is also actively involved in Islamic banking training activities and has conducted various training sessions, corporate workshops & seminars on different Islamic Banking topics. Mr. Siddiqui was also named in the Islamica as among the 500 of the world’s most prominent and influential personalities who build up and pioneer the Islamic economy.