Alikhan was the keynote speaker in Second Annual Harvard University Forum on Islamic Finance, held on 2-10 October, 1998. The topic was Islamic Finance into 21st Century’.
Alikhan’s pioneering role in introducing Islamic Finance in USA was of great help in setting the agenda for the Forum. Alikhan spoke comprehensively on Islamic Equity Benchmark Index along with some of the leading professionals and scholars in the field. Attached are the details of the forum from the achieve.
In 1995, the Islamic Finance Project (IFP) was founded by the Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES). In late 2003, IFP became a part of the Islamic Legal Studies Program (ILSP) at Harvard Law School. As the only Ivy League project of its kind, IFP aims to study the field of Islamic finance from legal perspectives by analyzing contemporary scholarship, encouraging collaboration among scholars within and outside of the Muslim world, and increasing the interaction between theory and practice in the Islamic finance industry.
The Project organizes the Harvard University Forum on Islamic Finance every two years.
Workshops, Seminars, Symposiums, and Lectures on important topics are also organized.
The purpose in conducting these is to bring a global assembly of participants under one roof to foster productive dialogue about the present status and future directions of Islamic banking and finance.
