Islamic Finance Education at La Trobe University

This chapter demonstrates how to create the human capital needed in the Islamic Finance (IF) industry, in a multi-culture and multi-faith community, drawing from the experience of La Trobe University. It also demonstrates the motivation for IF education globally and in Australia and covers the rationale, marketing aspects and curricula design of IF courses in La Trobe. It concludes by stating the need for developing a generation of Islamic Scholars to have a standardized global framework of IF standards and to actively contribute to the national strategy and development of IF