Mufti Ehsan Waquar Ahmed

He is the Sharia Advisor at First National Bank Modaraba and the Chairman, Shariah Board at NBP-Aitemaad. Alhamdulillah, he is among the few scholars who possess a unique combination of religious and contemporary education. He graduated as a Mufti, achieving Masters in Traditional Islamic Studies and specializing in Islamic Jurisprudence from Pakistan’s renowned Islamic School, Jamiat-ur-Rasheed. Later he accomplished Masters in Economics from KU and Masters in Business Administration with majors in Finance from IoBM. This unique blend of educational combination gives him an edge to understand, correlate and align modern day banking practices with Shariah principles. Besides this, he is also Chairman Shariah Board at Allied Bank Limited and Soneri Bank Limited. He is also serving as Shariah Advisor/Member Sariah Board at NAFA, AGICO, KSE and KPCCI Peshawar. Prior to this, he has served Islamic Financial Industry with institutions like ESSAC, Emirates Global Islamic Bank now Albaraka Bank Pakistan, UBL and Yasaar Ltd, UAE & UK.

Mufti Ehsan is also a member of the Technical Committee for Developing Accounting & Auditing Standard for Islamic Financial Institution at Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan (ICAP). He has actively worked with SBP and was nominated to several sub-committees formed by the SBP Shariah Board for Islamic Banking matters in Pakistan. Mufti Ehsan conducts courses of Classical Jurisprudence, Islamic Finance and Risk Management at Traditional Islamic Universities (Jamia-tur-Rasheed) and Modern Business Schools (IoBM). He frequently contributes in different international and local periodicals and appears as an industry expert on local TV channels.