KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Keynote Speaker 1
Datuk Dr Mohd Daud Bakar
President of International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM)
Datuk Dr. Mohd Daud Bakar has been appointed as the 8th President of the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) effective from 01st July 2019 until 30th June 2022. He is also Founder and Executive Chairman of Amanie Group. One of its flagship companies namely Amanie Advisors, is operating in few cities globally. He has recently been appointed as the Chairman of the Federal Territories Islamic Religious Council effective from 15th February 2021. He also serves as the Chairman of the Shariah Advisory Council (SAC) of the Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC), Kazakhstan and at the Central Bank of Malaysia, the Securities Commission of Malaysia, the Labuan Financial Services Authority, the First Abu Dhabi Bank, and Permodalan Nasional Berhad.
Datuk Dr Daud is also a Shariah board member of various global financial institutions, including the National Bank of Oman (Oman), Amundi Asset Management (France), Bank of London and Middle East (London), BNP Paribas Najma (Bahrain), Natixis Bank (Dubai), Oasis Asset Management (South Africa), Noor Islamic Bank (Dubai), Morgan Stanley (Dubai), Sedco Capital (Saudi and Luxembourg), and Dow Jones Islamic Market Index (New York) amongst many others.
In the corporate world, he is a member of the PNB Investment Committee. He is also the third Chair Professor in Islamic Banking and Finance of Yayasan Tun Ismail Mohamed Ali Berdaftar (YTI) PNB at Faculty of Economics and Muamalat, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM). In addition, he is the co-founder of Experts Analytics Centre Sdn Bhd and MyFinb.
In 2016, he received the “Award of Excellence for Outstanding Contribution for Shariah Leadership & Advisory” at London Sukuk Summit Awards and “Shariah Adviser Award” at The Asset Triple A Islamic Finance Award. In 2014, he received the “Most Outstanding Individual” award by His Majesty, the King of Malaysia, in conjunction with the national-level Prophet Muhammad’s birthday. Under his leadership, Amanie Advisors received the “Islamic Economy Knowledge Infrastructure Award” at the Global Islamic Economy Summit, Dubai 2015, by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, Oct 2015.
He received his first degree in Shariah from University of Kuwait in 1988 and obtained his PhD from University of St. Andrews, United Kingdom in 1993. In 2002, he completed his external Bachelor of Jurisprudence at University of Malaya.
His first book entitled “Shariah Minds in Islamic Finance: An Inside Story of A Shariah Scholar” has won the “Islamic Finance Book of the Year 2016” by the Global Islamic Finance Award (GIFA) 2016. Then, his book on sukuk entitled “An Insightful Journey to Emirates Airline Sukuk: Pushing The Boundaries of Islamic Finance” has also won the “Best Islamic Finance Case 2017” by the GIFA 2017 in Kazakhstan.
His latest books include Mindset Is Everything (2019), The Hard Truth of Islamic Finance (2019), Ratiocination in Islamic Legal Theory (2019), and Corporate Matrimony (2019). His other books include Mainstreaming Islamic Finance (2018), Shariah is Life (2018), I Have 25 Hours A Day (2016), Dhuha (Cahaya Pagi yang Terang) (2020) and Kembara Ilmu Dari Sg. Kolok ke St. Andrew (2021).
Keynote Speaker 2
Prof Stefania M. Maci
Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education and Student Affairs)
Director of CERLIS (Research Centre on Languages for Specific Purposes)
Full Professor of English Language and Translation
Dept. of Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
University of Bergamo
Stefania M. Maci (Phd, Lancaster University, UK) is a Full Professor of English Language and pro Vice-Chancellor (Education) at the University of Bergamo.
She is Director of CERLIS (Research Centre on Specialized Languages), and member of CLAVIER (The Corpus and Language Variation in English Research Group), BAAL (British Association of Applied Linguistics), AELINCO (Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics), and ESSE (European Society for the Study of English). She also serves on the Board of AIA (Associazione Italiana di Anglistica).
Her research is focused on the study of the English language in academic and professional contexts, with particular regard to the analysis of tourism and medical discourses.
Recent publications include: the monograph English Tourism Discourse (2020); the volumes Scholarly Pathways. Knowledge Transfer and Knowledge Exchange in Academia (2020), co-edited with Gotti and Sala; Communicating English in Specialised Domains. A Festschrift for Maurizio Gotti (2020), co-edited with Sala and Spinzi; and the papers: “Parents’ narrative about congenital heart diseases” (2019); “Knowledge Dissemination and Evidentiality on Posters.” (2019); ““The church was built on a basilica plan.” Translating and mistranslating Italian churches’ panels.” (2019); and “#icantbreathe. Ideology and Consensus: Printed News vs. Twitter (2018).”
Keynote Speaker 3
Prof Dato' Dr Teo Kok Seong
Felo Utama Bersama
Institut Kajian Etnik (KITA) &
Institut Alam dan Tamadun Melayu (ATMA)
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)
Prof Emeritus Dato’ Dr Teo Kok Seong
joined Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) (The National University of
Malaysia) in 1982 after astint as a trained secondary school teacher. Presently
in UKM, he is a fellow at two research institutes: Institute of Ethnic Studies
(KITA) and Institute of Malay World and Civilization (ATMA).
His academic interests are inter-link of language-society-culture,
and linguistic integration/nation building with language as a unifying tool,
which he cohered while studying at The University of California at Berkeley,
USA where he obtained a PhD in Linguistics in 1993.
Keynote Speaker 4
Prof Dato’ Dr Mohamad Sahari Nordin
Kulliyyah of Education
International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) Gombak Campus
Professor Dr. Mohamad Sahari Nordin is attached to the Kulliyyah of Education, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) since 1987. He has been involved in developing and teaching courses in Assessment, Measurement, Statistics, Educational Psychology and Research Methodologies at the postgraduate diploma, master’s and doctoral levels.
He received his early teacher training from Temenggong Ibrahim Teachers’ College. He contributes in the planning, implementation and research in the areas of testing, assessment and higher education locally and internationally. Prof Sahari is a member of the Education and Human Capital Development Cluster of the Council of Professors Malaysia.
Keynote Speaker 5
Prof Dr Metin Kozak
School of Tourism
Dokuz Eylul University
Prof. Metin Kozak holds bachelor’s degree from Cukurova University (Turkey), Master’s from Dokuz Eylul University (Turkey) and Ph.D. from Sheffield Hallam University (UK); all relating to tourism and hospitality management. He had published a wider range of articles in top-tier journals such as (Annals, TM, JTR, IJHM, Cornell Quarterly, JTTM), conference papers in more than 40 countries and books released by Elsevier, Routledge, CABI, Emerald, Springer, Cambridge Scholars Publishing among others. He acts as the co-editor of Anatolia and serves as an editorial board member of over 20 journals including Annals, JTR, JTTM, JBR, and TA.
In addition, Prof. Metin Kozak had served as an ad-hoc reviewer for many other tourism and hospitality journals. As a Research Fellow and Visiting Professor, he was affiliated with the University of Namur (1 September 2005-1 September 2006, Belgium), College of Charleston (20 June-10 July 2005, USA), Bournemouth University (1 July-15 August 2012, UK), Hong Kong Polytechnic University (1 August 2014-1 August 2015, Hong Kong SAR), and Bournemouth University (1 July-1 September 2016, UK). He is also involved in several tourism-based national and international research projects, particularly with his partners based in Europe and the US. Developing such partnerships has resulted in publishing quality journal papers, conference presentations and book chapters.
On the other side, he had been invited as a guest lecturer to conduct seminars or lectures in more than 15 countries worldwide. He also has an extensive experience in taking parts in the organization of various tourism and hospitality conferences, e.g., ATMC, Graduate Research Conference in Tourism and Hospitality, Interdisciplinary Tourism Research Conference, and IAST, TRC, AIEST, and CPTHL. He is also the co-founder of the above first three conferences. As of September 2017, his works have received over 350 citations in ISI-referenced journals and over 9,500 citations counted by Google Scholar. Recently, Prof. Metin Kozak was ranked among the top 25 prolific tourism researchers in terms of the number of publications from 1985 to 2004 (Zhao & Ricthie, 2007) and from 2000 to 2009 (Park, Phillips, Cantr & Abbott, 2011). In addition, he was also ranked among the top 50 prolific scholars in terms of the frequency of cited articles (McKercher, 2008).
Apart from that, he was elected as the Fellow of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism (Hong Kong, SAR), Research Centre (Austria), International Academy of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research (USA), and Association of Scientific Experts in Tourism (Switzerland). His research interests entail quality management, destination management and marketing, and consumer behaviour. His current affiliation is with Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey.
Keynote Speaker 6
Prof Nik Mohd Rahimi Nik Yusoff
Learning and Teaching Innovation
Faculty of Education
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)
