About the Author

About the Author

Dr. Taha Eltayeb Ahmed

Head of Product Structuring and Shariah Documentation

Dr. Taha Eltayeb Ahmed is currently the Vice President and Head of Product Structuring and Shariah Documentation at Badr Al-Islami, a subsidiary of Mashreqbank in Dubai, UAE. He was the founder and Head of Islamic Finance Centre at Bahrain Institute of Banking and Finance (BIBF) from 1997 to 2006. He held senior teaching positions at postgraduate and undergraduate levels at universities in Jordan and Sudan. He has written and published articles about Islamic Finance and Banking in a number of international journals and magazines. He has worked as a consultant to AAOIFI (Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions) in Bahrain, and has developed four Accounting Standards for Islamic Banks. 

Dr. Eltayeb has spent over 30 years in consulting and research in Islamic Finance and Banking. He has designed and executed training programs for various Islamic financial institutions, central banks, Islamic insurance companies, investment houses, training institutes and universities in Southeast Asia and Middle East. He is a regular speaker at well known Islamic Banking conferences in Bahrain, Malaysia, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Jordan and Europe. He has provided Islamic Finance consulting service to Islamic Development Bank, ABC Islamic Bank, Sudanese banks, the World Bank, Al Barakah Group, Shamil Bank, Gulf Finance House, Arcaptital, Bahrain Central Bank, Qatar Central Bank, Central Bank of Sudan, Bank Indonesia, Arab Organization for Agricultural Development, and Sudanese Ministry of Agriculture. 

Dr. Eltayeb obtained a Ph.D in Islamic Finance and Banking from University of Bath, UK, in 1987. He has Masters in Business Management (1982) and Bachelors in Accounting (1975) from University of Khartoum. He has received advanced training from IMEDE, Switzerland, and Post-doctoral education at Harvard Law School (Center for International Development), Cambridge, USA (1991).