Abdullah Zakariyya is the Director General of the Pension Supervision Department at the Capital Market Development Authority (CMDA) and Chairperson of the Academic Committee at the Institute of Chartered Accountants of the Maldives. A Fellow Member of ACCA (UK), he holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics and a B.Ed. in Education from the University of New South Wales, Australia, and an MBA from St. George’s University, Grenada. He previously chaired the Advisory Committee on developing the Maldives Sustainability Reporting Framework, served on the Statistics Council, was Treasurer of the Maldives Australia Alumni Association, and was a member of the Technology Committee at the South Asian Federation of Accountants (SAFA). He also contributes internationally as a Committee Member of the COMCEC Sustainability Task Force. At universities and colleges, his teaching spans Corporate Governance, Research Methodology, Financial Context and Contemporary Issues, Corporate Finance, Financial Management, Statistics, and Mathematics modules such as Calculus and Algebra.