Raja, Fatima

Affiliate, Harvard Islamic Finance Information Program; Cambridge, Mass. Fatima Raja is a recent graduate of Harvard College and a former researcher at the Harvard Islamic Finance Information Program (HIFIP). She is now Features and Books Editor at The Friday Times in Lahore, Pakistan. During her stint at Harvard, Raja was involved in numerous HIFIP activities, including editing papers for the proceedings, organizing the Harvard Forum on Islamic Finance, and, most notably, serving as a HIFIP portal developer helping transfer the DataBank from its CD-ROM format to the Internet. She was the prime compiler of the Proceedings of the Fifth Forum, and did the write-up for the special panel discussion on “Islamic Finance in the Contemporary Context.”