Sheikh Yusuf serves as the Chairman of Shariah Advisory Boards of the Dow Jones Islamic Market Indexes, Guidance Residential (USA), InterVest (Kuwait Investment Advisory Group), Oasis Asset Management (South Africa), Aspect Investment Partners (Dubai), Sidra Capital (KSA), Fifth Third Bank (USA) and others.
Sheikh Yusuf is a member of the Shariah Committee of the Accounting and Auditing Organization of Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI) and the Council of Scholars, International Shariah Research Academy (ISRA) at the Central Bank of Malaysia.
Sheikh Yusuf helped design the first Sukuk using assets based in the United States and was the Chairman of the Shariah board that approved the first corporate Sukuk in Saudi Arabia.
He was a founding member of the Governing Council of the International Centre for Education in Islamic Finance (INCEIF) in Malaysia, a member of the Board of Advisors at the Dubai Center for Islamic Banking & Finance and also served as an advisor on Islamic Education to the Government of Pakistan from 1981 to 1984.
Sheikh Yusuf has published English translations of several classics, including Al-Bukhari’s Al-Adab Al-Mufrad, Al-Ghazali’s Kitab Al-Halal Wa’l-Haram (Volume Fourteen) and Ihya `Uloom Al-Din published by the Islamic Texts Society in the UK.