Speakers

Aishath Muneeza

Place of Birth : Maldives
Born : 1985
Position : Chairperson of apex Shariah Advisory Council of CMDA, Maldives
Field of study : Shariah Governance, Waqf, Fintech

Associate Professor Dr. Aishath Muneeza of INCEIF is one of the key founders of Islamic finance in the Maldives. She is the first female Deputy Minister of Ministry of Islamic Affairs and the first chairperson of the Hajj Pilgrimage Fund of Maldives, Maldives Hajj Corporation Ltd. She is a former Deputy Minister of Ministry of Finance & Treasury of Maldives. She is also the former chairperson of the Maldives Centre for Islamic Finance.

She has published books and numerous articles on Islamic finance related areas. She structured the first corporate Sukuk. The sovereign private Sukuk and Islamic Treasury instruments for the government of Maldives were structured by her and she has played the key role in offering Islamic finance products for more than eleven institutions. She also designed the first Islamic microfinance scheme offered in the Maldives and designed the legal framework for the Islamic capital market in the Maldives.

She sits in numerous Shariah advisory committees of financial institutions offering Islamic financial services such as Islamic hire purchase and takaful and is the chairperson of some of them. Since 2011, she is the chairperson of the apex Shariah Advisory Council of CMDA, the capital market regulatory authority of Maldives. She is the only registered Shariah Adviser for structuring capital market instruments in the Maldives.

• She Has won numerous national and international awards for her service in the Islamic finance industry including the Rehendhi award, the highest award conferred to women by the government of Maldives.

• Among the most 500 influential in Islamic Economy

• Deputy Minister, Ministry of Finance and Treasury (2015 - 2018), Male', Maldives.

• Deputy Minister, Ministry of Islamic Affairs (November, 2013 - 2015), Male', Maldives.