Abdulkader Thomas

Course Director at IFF

Trainer

Based in Kuwait, Abdulkader has over 35 years of diversified financial services experience in major markets including Bahrain, New York, London, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. He has worked in trade finance, real estate finance, securities, and alternative finance at various global and regional financial institutions.

Abdulkader has worked on projects, including launching regulation, de novo Islamic banks and Islamic banking windows, policies and procedures, Shariah compliance, product development and structuring worldwide. He also has a wealth of Shariah board experience, dating back to 2006. Abdulkader was the architect of three US regulatory rulings authorising Islamic credit and depository instruments. He has also worked for the successful authorisation of two Islamic home finance instruments at Freddie Mac. He has been involved in Islamic capital market framework design in multiple countries.

He is the co-author of Interest in Islamic Economics (Routledge 2006), Structuring Islamic Finance Transactions (Euromoney 2005), Islamic Bonds (Euromoney 2004), Sukuk (Sweet & Maxwell 2009), and Managing Funds Flow Risks and Derivatives: Applications in Islamic Institutions (Sweet & Maxwell 2012) and Housing the Nation (Cagamas 2013).