Dr. Ahmad Zakirullah bin Mohamed Shaarani is currently a senior lecturer at Faculty of Management and Economics, Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI), teaching Islamic Banking, Islamic Capital Market, Usul Fiqh and Qawaid Fiqhiyyah in Economic’s perspective and other Islamic Finance’s subject. He was a registered Shariah Advisor as well as an Internal Shariah Committee member at the Islamic Banking and Finance Institute of Malaysia (IBFIM) and former Shariah Committee of United Overseas Bank (UOB). Currently, he serves as a Shariah Committee member at Hong Leong MSIG Takaful, Shariah Committee at the National Farmers Organization (Pertubuhan Peladang Kebangsaan), a Senior Consultant at Tawafuq Consultancy Sdn Bhd and a Shariah Committee member at Perbadanan Tabung Pembangunan Kemahiran (PTPK). He holds a Diploma in Syariah Islamiyyah from Institute of Islamic and Arabic Language (MADIWA), Taiping Perak and a Bachelor’s degree from Al-Azhar University, Tanta, Egypt in 2003. He completed his Master’s in Islamic Revealed Knowledge – Majoring in Usul al-Fiqh (Hons) from the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) in 2008. He received his Ph.D in Usul al-Fiqh from University of Malaya in 2017. His areas of specialisation are on Islamic Banking and Finance, Usul al-Fiqh and Zakat.