Training Program: "Islamic Finance and Banking"

Ishaq Bhatti is the founding director of Islamic Banking and Finance Programme at La Trobe University (LTU), Melbourne, Australia and an Adjunct Professor at the King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia.  Previously, he has taught at  Monash, Griffith, International Islamic University, Pakistan University of Alberta and visited Rider, Magberg, Hitotsubahi, Auckland, European Business School, Paris and various Middle Eastern Universities. He is an author of more than 85 articles, 3 books, book chapters, member of the editorial board of various journals and two special issue editor of Managerial Finance on interest free banking 2008. His major areas of research, scholarship and teaching are in Quantitative finance and Islamic banking and finance. He is the founder of the first ever, the only in Australia Islamic Banking and Finance Programmes, which links courses from professional to master and PhD level. He is the winner of the national ALTC award 2010, LTU award 2010 and postgraduate teaching award 2009. He was a member of the team who won AusTrade project Iraqi central banking, Victorian Department of Education ESL financial modelling project 2007 and Australian Research Council Discovery Grant jointly with Suren Basov.