Biography
Prof. Dr Mohd Nazari Bin Ismail is currently the chairman of BDS Malaysia. He is also a professor at the Faculty of Business and Accounting, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. Where he was also the dean of the faculty until 30 June 2015 and the head of the university’s strategic planning unit from 1996 to 1998 and from 2006 to 2009. He has written four books, the latest entitled ‘The Globalization Debate: A Case of Barking up the Wrong Tree’, and is presently completing his fifth on the danger of the lending-for-profit industry (i.e. the banking and finance industry). He has also consulted as well as provided training programs to a number of public and private sector organizations including the Prime Minister’s Department of Malaysia, Proton, Matsushita, The Royal Malaysian Police, and the Malaysian Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators. He was the 1999 Fulbright Foundation Malaysian Scholar at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA and also the Fulbright Visiting Specialist at Pfeiffer University, North Carolina, USA in 2005. In June 2005, he was a visiting fellow at Oxford Center for Islamic Studies, Oxford, United Kingdom. Prof. Mohd Nazari Ismail obtained his B.Sc. Economics (Hon.) from the University of Wales, U. Kingdom, followed by an MBA from the State University of New York, USA and a PhD from the Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
