Author: Omid Torabi

Omid Torabi is currently memder of board at Tosan; an IT company specialized in the provision of banking software solutions for financial, banking and payment industries. He was formerly CEO of Innovation & Development sdn bhd(IDCORP) and Tosan Data miners (TIDM), specialist companies in Fintech, knowledge discovery and financial Business Intelligence solutions. He has worked also for around 18 years in the field of banking software in Tosan (one of the largest banking software companies in Iran) as Product manager of Islamic core banking solution, banking dashboards, Trade finance solutions and etc. Omid graduated with computer engineering degree from Polytechnic of Tehran, and holds an MBA in Information Technology from IMI of Iran, and holds Ph D in Islamic finance at INCEIF, Malaysia. Abbas Mirakhor joined INCEIF in 2010 as Distinguished Scholar and the First Holder of INCEIF”s Chair in Islamic Finance. His research interests include conventional and Islamic economics and finance. He is a graduate of the Kansas State University, USA, where he received his Bachelor, Master and Ph D Degrees in Economics. In 1968, he started his academic career with University of Alabama, USA. Mirakhor has worked as a professor of economics at the University of Alabama, Alabama A&M University, and the Florida Institute of Technology. In 1984, he joined the IMF in Washington DC as an economist. He spent 24 years with the IMF, serving as the organisation”s Executive Director and Dean of the Executive Board, retiring in 2008.