El-Khatib, Husam

Associate, Mayer Brown International LLP, London, United Kingdom Husam El-Khatib is a finance lawyer at the law firm Mayer Brown and is based in their London office. Husam has been an active affiliate of the Harvard Islamic Finance Project over many years. He has assisted the IFP in organizing a number of conferences, workshops, and public events, including two annual workshops and public lectures jointly held with the London School of Economics and Political Science in London on the topics of tawarruq and sukuk. He previously worked as a real estate and corporate banker for the Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc and trained as an English lawyer at Denton Wilde Sapte LLP. He has a Masters from Johns Hopkins University, a law degree from the London School of Economics, and a B.A. from the University of Chicago.