Curriculum Vitae

DR. SYAZA NAWWARAH BINTI ZEIN ISMA

Senior Lecturer
  • Institute of Mathematical Sciences
    Faculty of Science

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION, FINANCIAL EDUCATION, COOPERATIVE FINANCING, SOCIAL FINANCE

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION

  • PhD.ASc, (Sains Aktuari)
    Australian National University
  • M.IBF, (Islamic Banking & Finance)
    International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM)
  • B.Sc.ACTFM, (Actuarial)
    Universiti Malaya (UM)

PUBLICATIONS

Article in Journal
  1. Abduh, M. and Zein Isma, S.N. (2017). Economic and market predictors of solvency of family takaful in Malaysia, Journal of Islamic Accounting and Business Research. 8(3), 334-344.
  2. Abduh, M. and Zein, S.N. (2016). Dynamic Financial Model of Life Insurance and Family Takaful Companies in Malaysia, Middle East Journal of Management, 3(1), 72-93.
Books
  1. Ismail, R., and Zein, S.N. (2019). Student Loans: The National Higher Education Fund Corporation (PTPTN). In Wan, C. D.; Sirat, M.; Razak, D. A. (Eds.), Higher Education in Malaysia: A Critical Review of The Past and Present for The Future (pp. 62-72). Malaysia: Universiti Sains Malaysia.

PAPER PRESENTED

ORAL PRESENTER
  1. The Prospect of Income Contingent Loan in Malaysia Higher Education Financing: Using Deterministic and Stochastic Methods in Modelling Income., 2017 Australian Conference of Economists (ACE), Economic Society of Australia (International) (19 Jul 2017 - 21 Jul 2017)
POSTER PRESENTER
  1. Modelling Malaysian graduates income profiles: An attempt to understand repayment burden in PTPTN loan, 10th MALAYSIA STATISTICS CONFERENCE 2023, Department of Statistics Malaysia (National) (26 Sep 2023 - 26 Sep 2023)

ACADEMIC/PROF. SERVICES

Contribution to external organisation
  1. (2024) Shariah Advisory Committee, National, (Auditor)
Mentoring
  1. (2024) Supervisor for 2 Students' Final Year Project by Research, University, (Academic Advisor)

SUPERVISION

Under Graduate Students
  1. (2023) Systematic Review of Financial Literacy Literatures and Bankruptcy Among Youth
  2. (2023) First Extensive Analysis on Aeromonas Species Distribution and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Profile from Clinical Specimens in Malaysia

TEACHING

Bachelor
  1. (2023) SIQ3011 - Business Finance
  2. (2023) SIQ2002 - Macroeconomics
  3. (2023) SIQ2001 - Microeconomics