Dr. Luthfi is the Head of the MA in Economics Program at UIII. He completed his
bachelor’s degree in Syariah law (IAIN Walisongo) and development studies
(Diponegoro University). He holds a master’s degree in Islamic banking, management,
and finance from Loughborough University, UK, and a doctoral degree in finance from
Griffith University, Australia. Before joining UIII, he was a lecturer at Paramadina
University and SEBI School of Islamic banking and worked as a business and economics
editor for Republika, an Indonesian daily newspaper, and served as an assistant to the
president and director of Bank Mumalat Indonesia. His research interests focus on
Islamic economics and finance, social and Islamic banking, Islamic business
management, small and medium enterprises (SMEs), and sustainability. His research
appears in various journals including Review of Islamic Economics, Journal of Islamic
Monetary Economics and Finance, Malaysian Journal of Economics, Journal of Islamic
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Marketing, and International Journal of Bank Marketing. He can be reached by email at
luthfi.hamidi@uiii.ac.id.
