M. Ishaq Bhatti is a Professor of Finance, Financial Econometrics and Statistical Data Analytics. He was the founding director of Islamic Banking and Finance Programme at La Trobe University (LTU). He served as a graduate research coordinator for the department of Accounting, Data Analytics, Economics & Finance in the School of Business till 2021. Previously, he has taught at Monash, Griffith, International Islamic University, University of Alberta and he visited Rider, Magberg, Hitotsubashi, Auckland and Middle Eastern Universities including Kuwait & Sultan Qaboos University, Professorship at UAE University, King Abdulaziz, SP Jain School of Global Management and Minhaj University's Deanship of International Chair. Currently he hold Professor Finance and Financial Data Analytics position at the Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei.

He is an author of more than 180 articles, 15 books, contributed to encyclopedias and a member of the editorial board of various International journals, including European Journal of Finance. His major areas of research, scholarship and teaching are in data analytics, Quantitative and Islamic finance, Econometrics and Statistics. He regularly co-organises International conferences, including Minhaj University (https://www.mul.edu.pk/english/tid/254/wiefc2021/) since 2018 to 2025 and 1 to 14th Foundation of Islamic Finance conference (https://submit.confbay.com/conf/11-th_fifc_2021) and 13th https://fifc.inceif.edu.my/.

He taught more than 25,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students in his academic career since 1985, specializing in large classes of up to 500 students in multi campuses setting via blended teaching/learning mode. His contribution to teaching excellence has been recognised with several teaching awards at the School, Faculty, University and National levels - including ALTC award 2010, PVC award 2019.
His teaching specialization include: (i) friendly culture-valued teaching with interesting data analytics examples and classroom experiments to make the understanding of statistical data analytics a fun and interesting. (ii) His Skeleton-layout interactive teaching method explain complex data analytics and statistical concepts easily. His courses taught include: (i) Basic Statistics and Data analytics (ii) Statistics for Business and Finance, (iii) Econometrics (iv) Quantitative Methods for Business (v) Islamic Finance, Islamic capital markets and Investment. He is teaching (i) Introduction to Quantitative Analysis - (ECO1IQN) and (ii) ECONOMETRICS OF FINANCIAL MARKETS, Fianacial Management for MBA, Research Methodology for postgdraduate students at Master by Research, DBA and PhD.

He was a member of the team who won Presidential Fellow of Higher education commission (HEC) Pakistan, Turkey Central Bank Training 2013, Islamic Development Bank, and the Australian Research Council Discovery Grant jointly with Suren Basov and Saudi capital Market - Islamic Mutual Fund project with Naseem Al Rahahleh of King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia. He appeared in local Australian and International media outlets including The Australian, The Age, Brisbane time, Economist, 'The New York times' -(https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/27/education/27iht-educSide27.html?_r=1&src=tptw), ABC & SBS-Radio, Bloomberg and National TV of Uzbekistan and Indonesia.

He served as an Advisory Board member of the National Zakat Foundation (NZF) of Australia and worked for Zakat@ICV and NILS-No interest loan Qard Hassan- Islamic social and micro finance. He is currently editing Routledge's 'Islamic Business and Finance' book series link below:
https://www.routledge.com/Islamic-Business-and-Finance-Series/book-series/ISLAMICFINANCE?pg=2&so=pubdate&pp=12&view=list&pd=published,forthcoming
In this series he edited 56 books as of February 2025.
- ORCID info: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5027-7871
- Researchgate site: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/M_Bhatti
-Google site: https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=gJhCA9MAAAAJ&hl=en