Izhar, Hylmun

(Economist, IRTI, Islamic Development Bank, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) Hylmun Izhar obtained his master degree in Islamic Finance with distinction at Loughborough University, and earned PhD in Islamic Finance from Durham University, United Kingdom during which he was honored a prestigious Doctoral Fellowship by Durham. He is frequent speakers in various international conferences and has conducted professional training courses for regulators, bankers and market players in the area of Islamic economics and Islamic finance. Having been an active contributor to Muslim World Book Review, Izhar’s academic articles appear in a number of refereed journals such as Review of Islamic Economics, IIUM Journal Economics and Management, Journal of Islamic Banking and Finance, Kyoto Bulletin of Islamic Area Studies, and Afro EuroAsian Studies. He also serves as an advisory board and academic referees for a number of prominent blind peer reviewed academic journals. Izhar has worked in diverse roles from lecturing at the Markfield Institute of Higher Education, Leicester, United Kingdom where he taught Islamic Financial Instruments, Economic Development and Finance and Cross Culture Management to consulting for Islamic Finance Advisory services at Oxford Islamic Finance Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary company of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Oxford, United Kingdom and The International Shari’a Research Academy for Islamic Finance, Malaysia.