Rifki Ismal

Rifki Ismal is an Adjunct Professor at INCEIF University (Malaysia) and Director in Bank Indonesia (central bank of Indonesia). He has been a central banker for 26 years appointed in various departments and was awarded the best central bank employee in 2017. As an academics, he is a lecturer in more than 17 universities, amongst all are University of Indonesia, Tazkia Institute and, IPB and was a visiting lecturer in Strasbrough University (France). Since 2002, he has published 76 academic papers in reputable international journals (21 are scopus), books and chapter contributors of reference books published by international publishers such as John Wiley and Sons (USA), Springer (Europe and USA), Routledge (Europe and USA), Edinburgh Press (UK), ISRA (Malaysia), supervised 147 both master and PhD students and examined 96 thesis/dissertations.

As a researcher, he was a visiting researcher in Bank for International Settlement (BIS) in 2006 and as the global scholar in the field, he was an Assistant Secretary General (top management) of the Islamic Financial Service Board (IFSB) (2020-2022) a standard setting body with 188 members including 82 central banks from 57 countries, headquarter in Kuala Lumpur. Lately, he was one of the founding members (4 persons) of Cash Awqaf Linked Sukuk (CWLS) project which was awarded the IsDB prize for the most Impactful Achievement in Islamic Economics in 2023. Besides central banker, academics and global scholar, he is a member of the Indonesia National Sharia Board (DSN) – National Ulama Council since 2017. He got a bachelor's degree in economics from University of Indonesia, master's in applied economics from University of Michigan, ann arbor (USA) and PhD in Islamic finance from Durham University (England).