Irwan Abdalloh
He has been working at the Indonesia Stock Exchange since 2000 by occupying many positions related to research, products and market development. He began to focus on developing the Islamic capital market since 2010. Currently, he is head of Islamic capital market at the Indonesia Stock Exchange and also member of Islamic capital market committee at the National Sharia Board of Indonesia.
In addition, he is also active in several organizations and served as vice chairman of the Islamic capital market commitee at the Islamic Economy Society, member of Islamic capital market committee at the Islamic Economics Expert Association, and member of sharia stock selection committee.
He has quite a lot of achievements in developing of the Indonesian Islamic capital market, namely:
• An originator of some instruments in the islamic capital market of Indonesia, such as:
Islamic capital market education program, namely Sharia Capital Market School (SPMS), an integrated training on stock investment in the Islamic capital market.
Indonesia Sharia Stocks Index (ISSI), an islamic stock composite index.
Sharia Online Trading System (SOTS), the world’s first sharia compliant online trading platform for retail investors.
• An originator of some islamic philanthropy products in the Indonesian islamic capital market, such as the tradable sharia stocks zakat and the tradable sharia stocks waqf.
He was the first Indonesian to receive:
• The Cambridge Islamic Finance Leadership Award 2017 from Cambridge IFLP headquartered in London, England.
• Upcoming Personality in Global Islamic Finance (Islamic Capital Market) 2020 from Global Islamic Finance Award (GIFA).
He is active as speaker about the Indonesian islamic capital market in many seminars/workshops and also a post-graduate lecturer in Islamic capital market courses at several universities in Indonesia.
In the midst of his busy life as a professional, he is still actively writing articles about the Islamic capital market in local and overseas publications. He is a regular contributor in the Islamic Finance News, an international publication for islamic finance, as a country correspondent since 2018.
He is an author of two books about Islamic Capital market written in Indonesian.
