Muhammad Raza, Group Head- General Services & Customer Support , Meezan Bank

Muhammad Raza leads General Services and Customer Support at Meezan Bank, Pakistan’s largest Islamic bank, an institution with significant reach across the economy and a growing interest in green and sustainable finance. Islamic finance principles, with their emphasis on asset-backed transactions, shared risk, and ethical investment, offer a natural alignment with the principles of sustainable finance, and Meezan Bank is among the institutions exploring how Islamic finance instruments can be structured to fund climate adaptation and clean energy projects. His role in shaping how a large financial institution manages its operations, serves its customers, and builds institutional systems is directly relevant to how banks respond to the climate challenge from the inside, from greening their own operations to supporting customers in sectors facing climate-related transitions.