Adil M. Butt holds an MBA in Professional Accounting (Honor Societies: Beta Gamma Sigma) from the Fordham University, New York, a BSc in Management from the Indiana University, Bloomington, and a Bachelor of Commerce from the St. Patrick’s Govt. College, Karachi. He is a Fellow member of the Institute of Financial Accountants, UK. Br. Adil is a director and a chief executive of the College of Accounting and Management Sciences/The Avicenna School.

Hamar Jawo holds an MBA in Banking and Finance from CESAG, Dakar, Senegal. Currently, he is a senior bank officer for the Arab Gambian Islamic Bank, Treasury Department.

Muhammad Irfan Duraiz holds a Master’s in Business Administration. He has participated in various trainings such as Job Evaluation System & Job Grading, Management Excellence, MS Excel Advance for Business Managers and others. Brother Muhammad has an extensive experience in managing rewards, remuneration, planning and budgeting, HRIS, compensation policies and practices, and is proficient in SAP-HCM & Data management with training certificate from PMI-Philippines. Brother Muhammad is currently working as a compensation officer at QIA.

Mehwish Masud holds a master’s degree in Business Administration with majors in Marketing from the Lahore School of Economics and a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce from Punjab University, Pakistan. She has attended various professional workshops, seminars and on-the-job training workshops such as a seminar on interviewing skills, small business finance and others. In addition to training as a management trainee officer, Sister Mehwish has also worked as a Management Trainee Officer and an Assistant Manager — Credit & Marketing for Habib Bank Limited, Pakistan.

Sana Gul Waseem holds a master’s degree in Business Administration and a bachelor’s degree in Information Technology (B.I.T) from the Hamdard University, New Delhi. Sister Sana has extensive teaching, writing and managing experience. She is a regular contributor for Sisters magazine, Productive Muslim, IOU blog, Habibi Halaqas and other publications.

Kashfia Nehrin holds an MA in Advance Economics from the International Islamic University of Malaysia and an MA in Economics from the University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. She has an extensive teaching experience as a lecturer of Business and Economics at various academic institutions in Malaysia and Saudi Arabia. She was a faculty member of the Business Administration Department at Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. She is also an expert in teaching Economics and Business for GCE (General Certificate of Education) and IGCSE (International General Certificate of Secondary Education) & AS/A (Advance Subsidiary and Advance) Level. Kashfia received various awards for her teaching excellence. She attended many local and international conferences on business and Islamic economics

Mr. Mansoor Danish is the Acting-Head of the Department for the BBA Program with over 6 years of teaching experience with the International Open University.

Mr. Danish is also an experienced baking and finance professional having exceptional proficiency in the Islamic Banking sphere. He worked with the HSBC Bank, India for nearly 6 years and then worked for nearly 2 years with Idafa Investments (India)- a sub-broking firm.

After working for over 8 years, he decided to pursue his post-graduate studies in Business Management. His specialisation was in Finance and his dissertation was on Similarities between Islamic Banks and Conventional Banks (using technical analysis). He completed this under the supervision of (Late) Dr Prithviraj Banerjee.

Mr. Danish also works as a Independent Financial Consultant assisting his clients to plan their financial goals. He is also a trained public speaker and has conducted several workshops and programs in the field of Financial Management, Islamic Finance, Sales & Marketing, Communication, Public Speaking and other self-development topics.