Dr, Sa’id Adekunle Mikail
Chairman, ACE
Dr Mikail is currently Associate Professor cum Senior Researcher at ISRA Research Management Centre of INCEIF University.
He is an AAOIFI Certified Shariah Advisor and Auditor (CSAA) and a Registered Shariah Adviser with Securities Commission of Malaysia (SC), a Member of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) UK and Member of AAOIFI Working Group of the Curriculum Review Committee (CRC).
He is Shariah Board Member of Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and Islamic Financial Services Board (IFSB) in Malaysia.
Dr Mikail is Chairman in several Shariah Boards including among others BNP Paribas (Najmah) Malaysia Berhad & BNP Paribas Labuan, Crown Takaful Insurance Ltd, Capital Trust and D'Namaz Capital in Nigeria.
He also sits as Shariah Committee Member of TAJBank Ltd, PruBSN Takaful Malaysia Berhad, i-Consult Africa in South Africa, Masryef Management House in Malaysia, and Marble Capital Halal Commodity in Nigeria.
His notable engagements include Expert Witness in the Kuala Lumpur High Court (Muamalat Court – Commercial Division) in Malaysia, BNM-ISRA-RMC on compounding profit in restructuring and rescheduling (R&R), Shariah Non-Compliance Rectification, Tawarruq Application, PIDM-ISRA-RMC Shariah Analysis on Resolution of Islamic Banks, Lafarge Cement Global Wakalah Sukuk by BNP Paribas and Standard Chartered, Musharakah Ta'awuniyah Takaful Model for Hong Leong MSIG Takaful (HLMT), UNHCR
ISRA Zakat Report, Sukuk Module for Brunei Institute of Leadership & Islamic Finance (BILIF) and Shariah Audit Review on Al Rajhi Bank in Malaysia.
Dr Mikail obtained his bachelor's degree of Shariah (first class honors) from Islamic University of Madinah in Saudi Arabia, followed by Master of Comparative Laws and PhD (Law) from International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM).
His areas of specialization include Islamic finance, Islamic social finance, comparative laws, and Islamic private equity & venture capital. His publications focus on Shariah issues in Islamic finance, Islamic legal theory, Islamic private equity & venture capital, Islamic entrepreneurship, comparative law, Halal, Zakat, Waqf and Islamic social finance. He has also published in several Scopus indexed journals, referee journals, magazines, and book chapters.
He has conducted trainings on Shariah governance, Shariah noncompliance risks, Takaful products and services, as well as Islamic wealth management, Sukuk, Shariah risk profiling and legal and regulatory framework for Islamic finance.
He has presented many papers in both international and national seminars and conferences on Islamic finance and contemporary Shariah issues.