Business schools feed hunger for courses on Islamic finance, aboriginal leadership – Financial Post
September 25, 2014
Six years ago, Walid Hejazi, associate professor at University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, discovered that half the people in his program had an increasing desire to learn more about the Middle East. It wasn’t surprising given the fact that international students comprise a larger and larger portion of enrolment at the school.
“At the time there was very little offered in terms of Islamic finance on the curriculum,” he says. So he took it upon himself to build a Middle East-focused curriculum, starting with study tours to the region.
After the fourth junket, he introduced a course on Islamic finance.
