Tariqullah Khan

CEO Ventureethica Toronto Canada, formerly Principal Economist and Division Chief at IsDB Group Saudi Arabia, Professor at HBKU Qatar Foundation, IZU Istanbul Turkey, INCEIF University Malaysia and Visiting Scholar at Harvard and Stanford Universities. Email: tariqullah.khan@ventureethica.com ORCID: https://orcid.org/ 0000-0001-5251-8950

Tariqullah Khan is a pioneering scholar of Dynamic Prescriptive Economics (DPE), a transformative framework designed to tackle 21st-century complex challenges through systems thinking, normalized balanced coordinates, and accumulated epistemic rationality. His work redefines decision-making for sustainability, technology governance, and regenerative development, offering innovative solutions for circular economies, AI ethics, and education reform. With applications in Islamic finance, he bridges ethical principles with cutting-edge economic models, creating scalable strategies for sustainable human development. Engage with him to explore how his interdisciplinary research can drive regenerative transitions and ethical innovation in your organization or academic pursuits.

Chitral-Pakistan born, and multiple international awards winner academic his current work focuses on sustainability and strategic management and Islamic Economics and Finance. He has worked with leading institutions and organizations around the world such as the Islamic Development Bank, Qatar Foundation, Stanford University, Harvard University, Istanbul Zaim University, INCEIF University and Ventureethica.

In 2022 he was awarded the Islamic Development Bank Prize c3 in Islamic Economics and Finance "In recognition of his distinguished work to integrate Islamic economics and finance with sustainable development and circular economy and infusing them in higher education programs"

Currently, he is CEO Ventureethica Toronto, leading sustainability and strategic management with AI applications, circular/green economy transition management, climate/sustainability entrepreneurship and Islamic economics and finance. In this capacity he has developed Dynamic Prescriptive Economics and Circular-ESG frameworks for sustainability management, monitoring and evaluation. 

Before joining Ventureethica during August 2024, he was Professor at  INCEIF University Malaysia during August 2022-2024, during September 2020-August 2022, he was Professor of Islamic Economics and Finance at the Faculty of Business and Management Sciences, Istanbul Zaim University Turkey. He was also Professor and Program Director MSc and PhD Islamic Finance and Economy at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar Foundation (2009-2020). He also served as a visiting scholar at Stanford University (2017) as well as at Harvard University (2011). During 2005 to 2009, he worked as Division Chief, Islamic Banking and Finance at the Jeddah-based Islamic Development Bank Institute (IsDBI).

For a long time in his early career, he worked as a Researcher, Senior Researcher, Lead Researcher and Principal Researcher at the IsDBI during (1983-2009). He started his career as an academic in Gomal University, Pakistan (1976-81) and International Islamic University Islamabad (1981-83). 

Apart from patronizing and spearheading policymaking, academic institution building and establishment of Islamic finance industry on sound and sustainable footing, he has published several papers, chapters, and books in many research areas of Islamic economics and finance as an established academic over the years.

In addition to sustainability management, his current areas of interest are circular economy, Islamic and sustainable finance, financial structuring and strategies and green transformation of economies.

He was twice elected President of International Association for Islamic Economics (2011-2019).

He holds PhD Economics - Loughborough University, United Kingdom 1996, MA Economics – University of Karachi, Pakistan 1976, BA Economics – University of Karachi, Pakistan 1973