Tn. Haji Azizi bin Che Seman

Tn. Haji Azizi currently holds the position of Chairman of Agrobank’s Shariah Committee starting 1st June 2021 and served as a member of the Shariah Committee of Agrobank since June 2015. He is a senior lecturer at the Department of Shariah and Economics, Academy of Islamic Studies, Universiti Malaya, a position he has held since 2002. He received his first degree in Shariah (Hons.) from Universiti Malaya in 1996 and completed his master’s degree in Economics from International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) in 2001. He has involved in the field of academic writing in addition to paper presentations at national and international seminars and conferences related to muamalat, Islamic banking and Islamic finance. Tn. Haji Azizi’s specialisation areas are Islamic capital market, Islamic economics, and fiqh muamalat.

At the beginning of his career in Islamic Financial Institutions (IFI), he was appointed as a Shariah Committee member of Bank Muamalat Malaysia Berhad (BMMB) in 2005 and became Chairman of the Shariah Committee members for the same institution. Currently, he has been entrusted as the Chairman of Shariah Committee for RHB Islamic, Chairman of Shariah Committee for Agrobank, Chairman of Shariah Advisory Committee of Association of Islamic Banking and Financial Institutions Malaysia (AIBIM) and Shariah Committee members for Sun Life Takaful Malaysia. Besides, he previously was appointed as a Shariah Committee at IBFIM.

Dr. Shafaai bin Musa

Dr. Shafaai received his first degree in Shariah from Al-Azhar University as the best student of the faculty of Shariah in 1991. He then successfully completed his master’s degree in Comparative Laws from International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) and subsequently obtained a doctorate from Glasgow Caledonian University both under the IIUM sponsorship scheme.

For over 26 years of his career, Dr. Shafaai served at IIUM in various capacities. In 1992, he started his career as an assistant lecturer at Ahmad Ibrahim Kulliyyah of Laws. In 2002, he served as Head of the Department of Islamic Law for three years and later was seconded to IIUM Centre For Continuing Education as Executive Director. In 2010, he was seconded to International Islamic College as Chief Executive Officer until December 2012, followed by a secondment to the office of Chief Minister of Johor as CEO of Johor Institute of Integrity, Leadership and Training for two years.

In the Islamic banking industry, Dr. Shafaai was appointed as Chairman of the Shariah Committee at Southern Bank Berhad in 2004. He later joined CIMB Islamic Bank as a member of the Shariah Committee since 2006 and was appointed as Chairman in 2019. Besides, He had served Celcom Axiata as Shariah Advisor, Sun Life Malaysia and CIMB Aviva Takaful as Chairman of the Shariah Committee. Apart from being a member of the Shariah Committee at Agrobank, he serves as Chairman of the Shariah Committee and Independent Non-Executive Director at Public Islamic Bank Berhad and as a member of the Shariah Advisory Body of Syarikat Takaful Malaysia Keluarga Berhad. In a re-takaful industry, Dr. Shafaai serves as Chairman of the Shariah Advisory Council of Reinsurance Group of America Retakaful since 2009.

Dr. Abdullaah bin Jalil

Dr. Abdullaah currently serves as a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics and Muamalat, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM). He has more than fifteen years of teaching, writing, research and advisory experience in the fields of muamalat, Islamic banking and finance. He has involved in the field of academic writing in addition to paper presentations at national and international seminars and conferences related to muamalat, Islamic banking and Islamic finance.

He was an alumnus of the Sultan Ahmad Shah Islamic College (KISAS) before completing his Bachelor of Shariah (Fiqh and Islamic Studies) with first class honours from Yarmouk University, Jordan. He later continued and completed his studies in Master of Business Administration (Islamic Banking and Finance) program at the International Islamic University of Malaysia (IIUM) and Doctor of Philosophy in Islamic finance at INCEIF (The Global University of Islamic Finance). In 2012, he was appointed as one of the Expert Panel for the Compilation of Program Standards: Muamalat and Islamic Finance under the Malaysian Qualifications Agency (MQA).

Apart from being a member of the Shariah Committee of Agrobank, he currently holds the position of Chairman of the Shariah Committee at Prudential BSN Takaful Berhad and a member of the Shariah Committee at Mizuho Bank (Malaysia). He used to serve as a member of the Shariah Committee for Bank Kerjasama Rakyat Malaysia from 2012 to 2021. He is also a member of the USIM Shariah Panel Committee since its inception and one of the Fatwa Research Panels at the Negeri Sembilan Mufti Department.

Professor Dr. Sharifah Faigah binti Syed Alwi

Professor Dr. Sharifah Faigah is currently a senior lecturer at Arshad Ayub Graduate Business School, Faculty of Business and Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM). Her lectures in UiTM and visiting professorship assignment in Indonesia cover among others usul al-fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence), fiqh muamalat (Islamic law of transaction), Islamic finance and Islamic financial regulatory framework and governance. She completed her bachelor’s degree in Shariah (Economics) and her master’s degree in Shariah (Islamic Banking) from Universiti Malaya in 1995 and 2004 respectively. She then obtained her doctoral degree in Islamic Banking and Finance from International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) in 2012. At the same time, she is also one of the Panels of Assessor of Malaysian Qualifications Agency and the external examiner/assessor for Islamic banking and finance programmes offered in a few universities in Malaysia and Saudi Arabia. Her area of expertise is more into the application of Shariah in Islamic banking and finance products especially in Islamic trade finance facilities.

Previously, Professor Dr. Sharifah Faigah was appointed as a Shariah Committee member at Export-Import Bank of Malaysia Berhad and United Overseas Bank (Malaysia) Berhad and currently serves at Agrobank, Maybank Islamic Berhad and AmMetLife Takaful Berhad as one of the Shariah Committee members.

Ustaz Wan Rumaizi bin W.Husin @ Abdul Aziz

Ustaz Wan Rumaizi was appointed as a member of the Agrobank’s Shariah Committee on 1st June 2023. He is the former lecturer at the Department of Fiqh and Usul al-Fiqh at the Kulliyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences of International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). He obtained his first degree and master’s degree both in Fiqh and Usul al-Fiqh respectively from Al al-Bayt University, Jordan and IIUM.

He actively delivers speeches and specialized training on Shariah in the areas of fiqh mualamat and Islamic economics, as well as medical fiqh. Currently he serves as ASAS Exco Member, Chairman of Shariah Committee and Independent Non-Executive Director of AEON Bank (M) Berhad, Shariah Committee Member of Lembaga Tabung Haji, Shariah Committee Member of MNRB Holding Berhad, Wakaf Committee of Majlis Agama Islam dan Adat Istiadat Melayu Kelantan, Panel Consultant Member for International Research Centre in Islamic Economy and Finance (IRCIEF), KUIS, Consultant for Sadaqah House, IRCEIF-IDB, KUIS and Member of International Union for Muslim Scholars (Ittihad al-‘Alami li ‘Ulama’ al-Muslimin), Qatar.

Previously, he was appointed as Chairman of the Shariah Committee for Al Rajhi Bank Malaysia, Shariah Committee Member of Prudential BSN Takaful Berhad, Shariah Committee Member of Bank Kerjasama Rakyat Malaysia (BKRM), Shariah Committee Representative to BKRM’s BOD Meeting, JAKIM’s Mualamat Panel of Expert and many other institutions.