Dr. Engku Rabiah Adawiah is a Professor at the Institute of Islamic Banking and Finance (IliBF), International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) Currently, she is a member of the Shariah Advisory Council of Bank Negara Malaysia (Central Bank of Malaysia), Securities Commission Malaysia. Labuan Financial Services Authority (Labuan FSA), Employees Provident Fund (EPF) and an independent Shariah Advisor for Islamic securities (sukuk) issuance, registered with the Malaysian Securities Commission. In addition, she is also a member of the Shariah Board of Labuan Re, Gen Re and Amanah Ikhtiar Malaysia. She is also a member of the Shariah Board for Khazanah in relation to four of its exchangeable sukuk. In recognizance of her works and contributions to Islamic Finance, she has been twice awarded with the Most Outstanding Individual Contribution to Islamic Finance by Deloitte in 2004 and again in 2014. Being the pioneer lady Shariah scholar in Islamic finance, locally and globally, she has also been listed numerous times in the list of influential women in Islamic finance, including: Top 10 Women in Islamic Finance (2014 and 2017): Top 10 Most Influential Women in Finance (2017), where she was ranked No. 4: and 3rd Most Influential Women in Islamic Finance 2018.
