Humayon Dar

Humayon Dar (born 1970) is a Pakistani-British economist and scholar in the field of Islamic banking and finance. He is the director general of the Cambridge Institute of Islamic Finance. Dar has held academic and professional positions, including director general of the Islamic Research & Training Institute (IRTI), a member of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Group.

Dar is the chairman of the Cambridge-Edbiz Group, which includes Edbiz Consulting and Cambridge IFA. He has served on the Sharia advisory boards of several financial institutions, including Arabesque Asset Management, Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank, and Hong Leong Islamic Bank Malaysia. He was previously a managing director at Deutsche Bank, where he headed its Islamic finance subsidiary, Dar Al Istithmar. He has also been a visiting professor at universities in the UK, Malaysia, and the Middle East.

Although not a classically trained Islamic scholar, he has studied Islamic sciences, such as Quranic hermeneutics. His academic influences include Muhammad Umer Chapra, Khurshid Ahmad, Anas Zarqa, Nejatullah Siddiqi, and Abdul Rahman Yousri.