Siddiqui, A. Rushdi

Global Director, Dow Jones Islamic Indexes; New York, New York A. Rushdi Siddiqui is Global Director of the Dow Jones Islamic Index Group, where he has created over 60 Islamic indexes and works closely with a six-member global shari‘a board. Siddiqui is a respected authority on Islamic finance, having delivered presentations at Islamic finance conferences around the world and given over 200 media interviews. He is a contributing editor to Islamic Banker, Advisor on Islamic Capital Markets to Euromoney’s Islamic Finance Weekly, a lecturer on “Principles of Islamic Investing” for the on-line Dow Jones University, and was a lecturer at NYU’s School of Professional Studies. In 2003, he received the Sheikh Mohammad Rashid bin Maktoum Award of Innovation in Islamic Finance. Siddiqui holds a BS from NYU, an MBA from Baruch College, and a J.D. from the Albany Law School of Union University.