Previous professor in the Department of Islamic Economics at the College of Administration and Economics, at King Abdulaziz University, and a member of the Board of Trustees and the Sharia Council of the Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI), and an expert in the Islamic Fiqh Assembly affiliated with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, and a member of several Sharia committees in financial institutions, his eminence holds a  Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, USA, and has contributions to several conferences, symposiums, research, and publications in contemporary financial transactions.