Shabnam Mokhtar is currently the Vice President at SHAPE® Knowledge Services, an Islamic finance consulting firm based in Kuwait. She spearheads research and development activities including financial analysis, strategic & business plan formulation, design and implementation of customized survey, research and training for different clients at SHAPE®. Formerly, she was heading the capital markets research for the International Shariah Research Academy (ISRA), an institution established by the Central Bank of Malaysia. Her focus area was case study based research projects in the Sukuk market. In May 2015 Shabnam was appointed as a member of the RHB Islamic Bank's Shariah Committee. Previously she served as a member of the Shariah Board of Malaysian Ratings Corporation (MARC). Shabnam successfully completed her Master of Accounting with distinction from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA. Her prior positions include a faculty member teaching accounting, finance and bank management courses at University Putra Malaysia. She has conducted various training programs on Islamic banking, Sukuk & Islamic capital market products, risk management and financial reporting for clients in the ASEAN region, GCC and the European market. Shabnam has contributed chapters in Housing the Nation (Cagamas 2013), Managing Fund Flows, Risks and Derivatives: Applications in Islamic Institutions (Sweet & Maxwell 2012), Islamic Financial System: Principles & Operations Market (ISRA, 2011), Sukuk (Sweet & Maxwell 2009), and Partnership Accounting, Principles and Practice (McGraw Hill).