Ezamshah Ismail receives award from Malaysian Takaful Association

Source: INCEIF. INCEIF School of
Professional Studies Dean Ezamshah Ismailreceiving the Tokoh Ilmuwan Takaful 2015 award
from Dato’ Muhammad Ibrahim, Bank Negara
Malaysia Deputy Governor. Looking on is MTA
Chairman Ahmad Rizlan Azman.

INCEIF School of Professional Studies Dean Ezamshah Ismail was awarded the Tokoh Ilmuwan Takaful 2015 (Takaful Scholar 2015) by the Malaysian Takaful Association in recognition of his contribution to the growth and development of the Malaysian takaful industry.

Ezamshah first got interested in the insurance industry when he was part of the pioneer batch of students enrolled for the Diploma in Actuarial Science at University Technology Mara in 1974, when little was known about the subject. He went on to complete his degree in Mathematics at Penn State University and subsequently, Masters in Actuarial Science at Northeastern University in the US. He was later employed by one of US’s largest actuarial consulting firms in New York City before returning to Kuala Lumpur to be the Country Head where he engineered a merger with another international practice to form one of Malaysia’s successful actuarial consultancy firms.

Ezamshah was also previously President of the Life Insurance Association Malaysia and the first President of the Malaysian Financial Planning Council (MFPC). He was instrumental in developing the Shariah Registered Financial Planning qualification in MFPC.

Ezamshah will soon be publishing his latest research on application of the trust concept for takaful. His published works include Takaful: Realities and Challenges, Takaful Broking and Operational and Actuarial Aspects of Takaful.