Rehan Saeed Khan is an Islamic Finance professional, speaker, and instructor who helps Canadian organizations in Shariah-compliant product development and promotes the Islamic Finance industry through education and advocacy.

Mr. Khan has a CPA from Maine, USA, an MBA in Islamic Banking and Finance from the International Islamic University of Malaysia, a Bachelor’s in IT from York University, Toronto, and an Associate’s Degree in Programming & IT from the Eastern Mediterranean University of Turkey. He speaks five languages and enjoys traveling, sports, and spending time with his family. He is active in the Toronto Muslim community as a mentor to teenagers and young adults.

Before being active in the Islamic Finance industry, Rehan Saeed worked as an Interest Relief Analyst at the CIBC Bank dealing with government-sponsored student loans. After a period of helping out students, he joined hands with the principals of a start-up firm providing Shariah-compliant mortgages in Ontario. He was responsible for marketing and later back-office operations at the start-up. He was part of the team that was instrumental in the rapid growth of the firm from an upstart to a $110 million asset-based company in less than two years.

His time with UM piqued his interest in Islamic Finance and he left for Malaysia to pursue his MBA in the field. In Malaysia, while working on his Masters, he worked as a research analyst and trainer for Kuwait Finance House (KFH), one of the largest Islamic banks in the world. He developed KFH’s in-house training program in consultation with their Shariah Board. During that time he trained over 100 bankers in Islamic Finance.

For over ten years now, Mr. Khan has been regularly conducting seminars and certification courses on Islamic Finance, specifically in the areas of debt & equity-based instruments. He has been a frequent speaker at York University, University of Toronto, Mc Masters University and Ryerson University. His area of specialization is product structuring and training, especially re-engineering of conventional financial products into Shariah-compliant equivalents. He was also an Instructor at the Centennial College in Toronto where he taught the Islamic Finance & Investment course from the CISI (the Chartered Institute of Securities & Investments, UK) for a number of years. He was also a part of the brainstorming team at the TFSA (Toronto Financial Services Alliance) under the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development & Trade to make Toronto a center of excellence in Islamic Finance.

Currently, he is a liaison at the Islamic Finance Advisory Board where he is responsible for product re-structuring, training, and advocacy. He also acts as an advisor to Credit Unions in Ontario in developing Shariah-compliant financial instruments. He has provided numerous consultancy and training sessions to law and accounting firms, Trust & Equity Funds and Toronto Stock Exchange listed companies in Ontario.

​Mr. Khan has been an author of various white papers on Mortgage Investment Corporations (MIC), Retail and Commercial Mortgages, Retail Auto Leasing & Financing, Commercial Equipment Leasing, and Trust & Equity Fund models. In his career, he has also worked with two of the “Big Four” Canadian banks, CIBC, and TD as an Interest Relief Analyst and a Mortgage Underwriter, respectively. He has also successfully developed various Shariah-compliant mortgage, leasing, and investment instruments over the last ten years.

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