Director and Head Islamic Asset Management and Investments, CIMB Islamic

Tahir Ali Sheikh

Tahir Ali Sheikh has more than seventeen years of experience in asset management, capital markets, project financing and private equity in the Middle East, Central, South and South-East Asia.

Mr. Sheikh is currently the Director and Head, Islamic Asset Management and Investments at CIMB Islamic. He is responsible for developing and managing the Shariah advisory and governance aspects for CIMB Group’s Islamic investment management business, which totals USD 5.7 billion in assets under management.

He was previously a Director with the private equity fund manager CapAsia, a one-time wholly owned subsidiary of CIMB Group, where he served as the senior team member responsible for making investments on behalf of the Islamic Infrastructure Fund. Prior to joining CapAsia, Mr. Sheikh led origination, syndication, structuring and due-diligence of project and corporate finance transactions in the Middle East as Vice President with the Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank.

Mr. Sheikh has also worked at the Islamic Development Bank (IDB), serving as the Projects Officer in the Infrastructure Finance Division of Country Operations (Asia) Department. At IDB, Mr. Sheikh managed a portfolio of projects in excess of USD 2.3 billion, in addition to being involved in financing a number of infrastructure projects in Indonesia, Pakistan, Iran and Bangladesh. Mr. Sheikh started his career with BP Exploration and Production in Pakistan in 1996, where he worked first as a Mechanical Design Engineer and later as a Project Engineer in the Technical Services Group.

Mr. Sheikh is a CFA Charterholder and has a Master in Public Administration degree from Harvard University in the United States. He also holds an MBA from Institute of Business Management in Pakistan. He received his B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Engineering and Technology in Pakistan in 1995.