Prof. Dr. Engku Rabiah Adawiah Engku Ali

DR ENGKU RABIAH ADAWIAH ENGKU ALI is a Professor at IIUM Institute of Islamic Banking and Finance (IIiBF), International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). Currently, she is the Deputy Chairman for both the Shariah Advisory Council of Bank Negara Malaysia and the Securities Commission Malaysia. Apart from teaching, she is also active in advisory works, which gave her extensive exposure to the practice of Islamic finance. She sits in various Syariah advisory bodies, such as, Labuan Offshore Financial Services Authority (LOFSA) and Employees Provident Fund, to name a few. Of late she has developed a keen interest in waqf activism where she sits in the boards of AWQAF Holdings and Khadijah International Waqf Foundation. In the past few years, she had served as a member of the disciplinary committee for the Malaysian Bar Council. In recognizance of her contributions to Islamic Finance, she has been awarded with the Most Outstanding Individual Contribution to Islamic Finance in 2004 and again in 2014. Being the pioneer lady Shariah scholar, she has been listed numerous times in the list of influential women, including : Top 10 Women in Islamic Finance (2014 and 2017) and 3rd Most Influential Women in Islamic Finance 2018 and 2019 during the WOMANi Gala Dinner held in Kuala Lumpur and Dubai respectively. Recently, she is ranked 2nd Most Influential Women in Islamic Finance 2020. She obtained her LLB (first class honors), LLB (Shari’ah) (first class honors) and Masters of Comparative Laws (MCL) from the IIUM. In 1998, she was conferred with PhD in law from the University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom. She is married and blessed with four sons, three daughters and five grandchildren.