Dr. Shariq Nisar is an Indian finance professional, academic and activist. He received PhD in economics from Aligarh Muslim University, one of the oldest universities in India. He co-founded TASIS (Taqwaa Advisory and Shariah Investment Solutions), a shariah advisory institution, related to finance, based in Mumbai, that screens stocks for Shariah compliance. His first major work was the launch of India's first Shariah Index in association with the Bombay Stock Exchange (i.e. "BSE TASIS Shariah 50"). Later on he worked with the National Stock Exchange to launch Shariah index for them. He is advisor to Kerala Government's Islamic Finance venture Cheraman Financial Services Ltd. He also helped Government of India owned General Insurance Corporation of India (GIC Re) establish its Retakaful division in 2009. During 2013 and 2014, he served as a senior visiting fellow at Harvard Law School. He was invited to share his views before the Select Committee of Indian Parliament on the Insurance Laws (Amendment) Bill (2015). He served as a non-executive independent director at Octaware Technologies from November, 2015 to December 2018, India's first shariah compliant publicly listed company. Dr. Nisar has also authored various books in the area of Islamic Finance with International as well as Indian perspectives. He has been awarded Bharat Inclusion Research Fellowship 2020. Selected Bibliography Books Nisar, Shariq and Ali, S.N. (2016) Takaful and Islamic Cooperative Finance: Challenges and Opportunities, Edward Elgar, the UK. (). Nisar, Shariq and Ali, S.N. (2014) Islamic Finance and Development, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, the US, (). Nisar, Shariq, (2013) Islamic Banking, Finance and Capital Market, Textbook used by the BSE Institute for its online Islamic Finance Certification Program. Book Chapters Nisar, Shariq and Farooq, Umar. (2021). "Structural Mechanisms for Islamic Ethical Wealth for SDGs", In Masum Billa (Ed.) Islamic Wealth and the SDGs – Global Strategies for Socio-Economic Impact, Palgrave Macmillan, Switzerland, Nisar, Shariq and Farooq, Umar. (2020) "Shari‘Ah Governance Practices in India", The Edinburgh Companion to Shari’ah Governance in Islamic Finance, Edinburgh University Press, the UK, (). Nisar, Shariq and Farooq, Umar. (2019) "Financial Intermediation, Fintech and Shariah Compliance", Fintech in Islamic Finance: Theory and Practice, Routledge, London, the UK, (). Nisar, Shariq and Rahman, Syed Mizanur. (2012) "Minority funds in India: institutional mobilization of micro savings", In Shari‘a-compliant Microfinance, Routledge, London, the UK. Nisar, Shariq and Khatkhatay, M.H. (2008) "Investments in Stocks: A Critical Review of Dow Jones Shariah Screening Norms", Islamic