Dr Amat Taap Manshor is CEO of the Finance Accreditation Agency (FAA) since its inception in August 2012.

Prior to joining FAA, Dr Amat served the positions of Chief Accreditation Officer and Senior Director at the Asian Institute of Finance (AIF), held senior positions in Institutions of Higher Learning and multinational companies where his portfolios included strategic leadership, professional training & learning and human capital development. His experience in these areas spans more than 20 years.

As CEO, Dr Amat led FAA’s growth and set the agency on solid path towards achieving its targets in developing standards in quality learning and development for the Financial Services Industry (FSI). In the process, he put in place the different qualification structures into one single framework by which attributes of quality learning are translated, understood and accurately measured. The completion of the structure is essential as it provides an agreed set of content standards against which training providers can benchmark their training programmes, and will lead to the fulfilment of the key technical competencies required by the FSI.

Dr Amat sits as an expert panel for Finance and Accounting standards under the Malaysian Qualifications Agency and was recently, appointed as an International Panel Assessor for the Qualifications and Quality Assurance Review, Bahrain.