Dr Mohammed R. Kroessin

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Certified Expert in Islamic Microfinance Lecturer

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Dr Mohammed R. Kroessin is a development economist with 20 years of experience working with Islamic development and financial institutions on strategies for financial inclusion, sustainable development and climate finance. He formerly worked for the Chambers of Commerce and the Centre for Enterprise in the UK and was Asst. CEO of Muslim Aid. Mohammed is now the head of Islamic Relief’s Global Islamic Microfinance Unit where he leads a portfolio of 10 country financial inclusion programmes.

Mohammed holds the Islamic Finance Qualification from the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment (developed in conjunction with the Advisory Council for Islamic Finance (ACIF), a master’s in international political economy (Kent, UK), a master’s in development management (Westminster Business School, UK) and has studied Fiqh ul Buyu’u with traditional scholars of the Hanbali Madhab. He has completed his PhD in Islamic microfinance at the University of Birmingham (UK). He was a Research Associate at the University of Birmingham and a Visiting Research Fellow at Aston Business School.

Mohammed has worked with Islamic development finance institutions in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, sits on the board of two microfinance institutions in the Balkans and is a director of the UK Financial Inclusion Forum. He is also the founder of GEMicro, an Islamic social finance advisory firm and has consulted for a number of clients, including the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB). He has run training programmes for senior managers of Islamic banks and MFIs, including in Afghanistan, Bosnia, and Kenya.