9 November 2015

Omar Salah appointed Visiting Professor at IE Business School

As of 1 November 2015, Omar Salah is appointed as a Visiting Professor in the executive master's programme "Corporate Master in Islamic Finance and Leadership Development" at IE Business School. He will be teaching the module "Legal Practice of Islamic Finance Transactions".
The master's programme is set up in collaboration with the Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD), a subsidiary of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB). It is aimed at professionals and executives. The programme will also be offered as an integral part of the talent development programme of ICD. The lectures will be held in Spain, Saudi Arabia and online (IE Business School has the strongest online MBA programme in the world according to the Financial Times). Since Omar is currently located in Singapore, his lectures will be mostly online. IE Business School is the graduate school of the prestigious Instituto de Empresa (IE University) in Madrid, Spain. IE Business School trains entrepreneurial business leaders at all stages of their career with a truly global perspective. It is regarded as one of the best business schools in the world (in the top 5 in Europe and worldwide, according to the Financial Times and Forbes). IDB is an international financial institution located in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. It was founded by the Finance Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). Its present membership consists of 56 countries. ICD aims to support the economic development of its member countries through the provision of finance for private sector projects, promoting competition and entrepreneurship, providing advisory services to the governments and encouraging cross-border investments.