Dr. Ameen Talib
Head of Applied Project
School of Business
Singapore University of Social Sciences
Ameen Talib is a Chartered Accountant, Academic, Consultant, CEO, Entrepreneur and social activist. He graduated from Ain Shams University in Cairo with a Bachelors in Commerce (Accounting) in 1983 and moved to London to pursue his Masters in Accounting and Finance from London School of Economics. He obtained his PhD from Warwick University in 2003 and left NUS (where he was since 1991) in the same year to focus on his business and consulting.
With more than 15 years’ experience in F&B as a owner-manager of lifestyle café and restaurant. Ameen introduced new lifestyle product into the Singapore market.
Ameen has also been strategy director and CEO of a manufacturing company in Thailand. He restructured the company from a trading company to a manufacturing company including the construction of the factory and the process design.
Ameen has over 25 years’ experience in lecturing and training and have also undertaken numerous training and consulting projects, in various parts of the world including (not exhaustive) Poland, China, Zambia, India, Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Saudia Arabia, Dubai, Thailand, Rwanda and Kuwait.
With over 25 years’ experience in non-profit organisations and community work; Ameen served as a board member of the Association of Muslim professionals (AMP) in three different occasions; in the inaugural board from 1992 to 1996 and then from 2002 to 2007 and again 2010 to 2013. He had also been Chairman of Centre for Research on Islamic and Malay Affairs (RIMA); served in the board of the Malay Heritage Foundation; and is currently in the management board of the Arab Association (Al-Wehdah) and is Co-Chairman of the Al-Wehdah Bursary Fund. Currently he is Chairman (and c0-founder) of the Singapore Muslim Education Fund (SMEF) and was in the Management Board of the Middle East Institute, NUS. He has also served many other voluntary organizations.
Ameen has over 15 years’ experience in business consulting specialising in strategic restructuring, performance management and operating processes and has consulted for clients in Thailand, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates and Kuwait.
