Tariq, Wijdan

Wijdan Tariq is an academic researcher at the Center for Islamic Economics and Finance, College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, a Member of the Qatar Foundation. He is also Adjunct Instructor at Georgetown University Qatar. He has presented his work in peer-reviewed conferences and workshops such as the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics at the University of California, Berkeley (2016), British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA) Doctoral Conference at the London School of Economics (2014), 4th Islamic Banking and Finance Conference at Lancaster University (2014), Harvard Institute for Global Law and Policy Workshop in Doha (2013), and the American University of Sharjah’s First Symposium on Islamic Banking and Finance (2013). In addition, Wijdan has attended summer courses on empirical methods at the University of Michigan, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, and the London School of Economics. He has served as the key organizer of the 8th, 9th and 10th International Conferences on Islamic Economics and Finance in Doha, Istanbul and Doha respectively. Previously, he had worked on short-term projects at Ernst & Young in Bahrain, BMB Group UK Ltd in London and at the International Islamic Financial Market in Bahrain. Wijdan is working on a doctoral thesis exploring corporate debt arrangements in emerging markets, with a particular emphasis on Islamic syndicated finance and Islamic project finance. Using evidence from micro-economic (deal-level) data, he aims to contribute to our knowledge of the factors–such as information asymmetry–that may affect Islamic financial arrangements between corporate borrowers and lenders/financiers. Research and Teaching Interests:Islamic Banking and Finance; Corporate Finance; Multi-Bank (Syndicated) Financing; Debt Markets; Infrastructure Finance; Financial Statement Analysis; Asset Management; Financial Accounting; Business Ethics; Mathematics and Statistics for Business and Economics; Econometrics for Finance.