Sabahat Rafiq started her career as a consultant and coordinator for USAID and Arthur D. Little. She subsequently joined an international Islamic banking group and spent the next few years focusing on Sharia compliant Investment Banking. Upon coming to the US in 1995, she founded a successful textile-trading house in Oregon. She later moved to California, and re-focused her energies on her core expertise in the Finance industry. She is a consultant to reputable Middle-Eastern financial institutions and Pakistani Islamic banks. She also consults with local venture capitalists educating them about Islamic banking and assisting them in building bridges between the US and the Middle Eastern financial markets. In addition, she has an avid interest in history, politics and philosophy and is a consummate reader and enthused analyst. She delivers talks about Islamic finance, South-Asian affairs and history and philosophical discourse therein at various universities and forums. She has also recently joined the board of Islamic Network Groups (ING).