Dr. Muhammad Kabir Muhammad (MK) is the Chief Compliance Officer TAJBank Limited. Prior to joining the Bank in August 2022, he had served in several senior management roles for nearly a decade at Jaiz Bank Plc, including Chief Strategy Officer and pioneer Chief Financial Officer. He is very versed in Islamic Finance, Islamic Accounting, Corporate Strategy, Product Development, Corporate Finance as well as Financial Control, having worked for a combined period of over two decades spanning private equity, investment banking and a stint in academics in the United Kingdom. As a former conventional Investment and Commercial Banker, MK has extensive experience in the financial services industry.
He also had an academic stint at Henley Business School, University of Reading, United Kingdom. courses. MK is a Chevening Fellow (the most prestigious UK scholarship), a John Lloyd Huck scholar (USA), an AAOIFI Certified Fellow (Bahrain), a Charter Holder of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investments (CISI), United Kingdom as well as Chartered Islamic Finance Analyst (CIFA), Kuwait.
He holds a BSc Hons. Accounting and MSc in International Accounting & Consulting (awarded with distinction) from Bayero University and the University of Reading, respectively. He got his PhD in Strategic Finance from the Open University, United Kingdom. In addition, he has taken various courses and attended various programmes in top-rated business schools including the Harvard Business School (Harvard University) Boston, Massachusetts