Dr. Abu Ghuddah is a member of the Shariah Supervisory Board of Guidance Financial Group. He is also a director of the Department of Financial Instruments at Al-Baraka Investment & Development Company, a member of its Shariah Supervisory Board and Shariah Advisor to the parent company, Dallah Al-Baraka Group. He is an active member of the Islamic Fiqh Academy and of the Accounting and Auditing Standards Boards of Islamic Financial Institutions. He has taught Islamic jurisprudence in Riyadh and Kuwait. From 1982 to 1990 he was a member of the Fatwa Board in the Ministry of Islamic Affairs in Kuwait. He formerly lectured in the Faculty of Law and Shariah at Kuwait University. Dr. Abu Ghuddah obtained B.A. degrees in Islamic Shariah and in Law from Damascus University and then went on to earn his M.A. in Shariah and Hadith and his Ph.D. in Shariah and Comparative Fiqh from Al-Azhar University.