Prof. Dr. Younes Soualhi is a Shari’ah Advisory Board (SAB) Member of Tropical Bank Ltd appointed as the Executive Member of the Shari’ah Advisory Board.
Prof. Dr. Younes holds a PhD (Usul al-Fiqh) from International Islamic University of Malaysia (IIUM), Masters (Usul al-Fiqh) from University of Malaysia (UM), B.A (Shari’ah – Usul al-Fiqh) from Emir Abdulqadir University of Islamic Sciences in Algeria. He is a Registered financial planner and also holds a Diploma in Human Sciences.
He is currently a Chairman of Shariah Committee of Al-Rajhi Bank, Malaysia, the sole Shariah advisor for Kuwait Retakaful (Labuan), the Chairman of Shariah council of experts for Salam Takaful, Nigeria, Shari’ah Member of the Malaysian Stock Exchange (Bursa Malaysia), and the Chairman of Aljazair Mutahidah Takaful company in Algeria. He was previously the Chairman of the Shari’ah board of Munich Re Retakaful and a member of Shari’ah Committee of HSBC Amanah Malaysia.
He is also a Registered Financial Planner (RFP) under Malaysian Financial Planning Council (MFPC) and a member of the Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI) Shariah sub-committee. He serves as a Senior Researcher at International Shari’ah Research Academy for Islamic Finance (ISRA) and the Head of Islamic Banking Unit. He is also a Senior Researcher Fellow and Professor at INCEIF University, Malaysia.
He is a former World Bank advisor, International Shariah advisor, International trainer, advisor for the DRIVE Takaful product in the Horn of Africa.
He has more than twenty-three (23) years of wide-ranging teaching experience and taught Islamic finance subjects such as Takaful and Retakaful courses for Masters and Ph.D levels. He is a Former Vice-President of the Faculty of Islamic Finance: International Islamic University of Malaysia (IIUM). He has also published articles and books in Islamic Banking and Finance particularly on Takaful and Retakaful.