Nafis Alam — Product Manager

Experienced Professor and Leader with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry with rich experience in Transnational Education and Branch campuses. I am currently working as a Professor of Finance and Head (Dean) of the School of Business at Monash University Malaysia. I previously worked as Professor and Head of the School of Accounting & Finance at Asia Pacific University (APU), as Associate Professor at Henley Business School ( Univ. of Reading), and at the Nottingham University Business School (NUBS) at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC). I am also a research affiliate of the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. I regularly contribute to a global industry report on Fintech and Financial regulations. My research is focused on banking/FinTech regulation, financial stability, corporate finance, financial market, Islamic banking and finance, financial intermediation, and financial economics. My articles have been published in leading journals like The World Economy, Emerging Markets Review, RIBAF, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Journal of Asset Management, Journal of Banking Regulation, Journal of International Banking Law & Regulation, Review of Islamic Economics; Journal of Internet Banking and Commerce and Journal of Financial Services Marketing among others. I have co-authored nine books on Islamic Finance/Fintech, and among them is the Encyclopedia of Islamic Finance, which is the first of its kind and has sold over 1000 copies worldwide. As a frequent traveller, I have given lectures on Islamic finance/finance worldwide, such as the Harvard Islamic Finance Forum at Harvard Law School, Gulf Research Meeting at Cambridge University, UK, Durham University Summer School and Seoul International Finance Conference (SIFIC), among others. I have been appointed as a visiting Associate professor at Universities in the UK and Indonesia. I have co-edited special issues on Islamic finance in mainstream finance and economics journals such as The World Economy, Managerial Finance and Economic Papers. I was featured as the Professor of the Month by the Financial Times in 2014 and am the winner of the Upcoming Personality in Islamic Finance for 2016, given by GIFA. I have been ranked among the top 50 global social media influencers in Fintech by Refinitiv and Thinkers 360 and Ranked as the number one Global Regtech Influencer.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Higher Education leader with expertise in regulatory frameworks and financial research.

Location: Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Experience: 21 yrs 5 mos