Rushdi Siddiqui has dedicated his professional life to Islamic finance, halal food industry, startups, sustainability and Blockchain. He lead a team at Dow Jones Indexes to create world’s first Islamic equity index, Dow Jones Islamic Market Index (1999), world’s first Islamic Sustainability Index (2006), world’s first sukuk index, CitiGroup-DJI Sukuk Index (2006), first halal food index, Sami Halal Food Index (2011), first Islamic alternative to LIBOR (Thomson Reuters IBOR, 2010), first global ecomm platform for halal food, Zilzar (2014), world’s first global ecomm platform for sustainability products (Global Eco-Mall, 2016), etc. Linkedin profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/rushdisiddiqui/ He has been recognized as top 50 global Islamic finance personalities for three straight years, 2015/16/17 (http://islamica500.com/), featured in a book called Leaders in Islamic Finance,  has over 25 international awards, was on the Islamic Finance advisory Board of Dubai International Financial Center (DIFC, 2007-2011), was on Malaysia’s Securities Commission International Islamic Advisory Committee (2011-2013), was Mentor at McKinsey YLA in Malaysia (2015-16), Mentor at Singapore based VC firm, www.questventures.com, for Islamic economy startups (2017), Advisory Board at Wall Street Blockchain Alliance (2017), Advisory Board member at Malaysia based IFN Fintech, 2018, etc. Mr. Siddiqui is also an avid and keen writer. He was a columnist in Malaysia’s Malaysian Reserve, Malaysia Insider and The Edge, and Dubai’s Khaleej Times, Dubai’s monthly magazine CPI, and others, and previously had column for Malaysia’s NST and Dubai’s Gulf News. His years in an industry that spans from the West to the East, allows him an insight and provides him expertise in excelling in an unstructured global environment.

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