Mohammed Khnifer

Hailed by the “Islamic Globe” as “Industry Stalwart”, Mohammed Khnifer is regarded as part of a new generation of young Islamic banking practitioners, who comes with solid academic and professional background in Islamic finance and Debt Capital Market (DCM). With highly rare combination of banking and Debt Capital Market-related Shariah knowledge and product structuring, Mr. Khnifer was interviewed twice by the Financial Times. He was featured by Bloomberg/BusinessWeek as "Sukuk Structurer"​, CNN Arabic as “Islamic finance specialist”, FT as “Shariah Adviser” and Thomson Reuters as "Islamic finance analyst"​. In 2015 & 2016, he was named among the “Top 500 Most Influential Leaders Who Make the Islamic Economy”, in ISLAMICA 500.He is also a Thought-Leader in the area of Islamic finance and Debt Capital Market.He is DCM Commentator with CNBC Arabiya & Al Arabiya. Mr. Khnifer is mostly remembered in the Islamic finance industry as the person who sparked the “Great Debate” over Goldman Sachs’ Tawarruq Sukuk, resulting in postponing the issuance for 3 years. His experience with Goldman Sukuk was depicted in Harris Irfan's book: “Heaven's Bankers: Inside the Hidden World Of Islamic Finance”. ------ TV Interviews: https://goo.gl/NGcuGv https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8bnCYhgBFmzy5FSJTvfDVw ---Linkedin: https://sa.linkedin.com/in/mohammed-khnifer-66991012?trk=author_mini-profile_title --Twitter: @MKhnifer --ACADEMIA: http://reading.academia.edu/MohammedKhnifer/Papers