International Real Estate Agent; Cologne, Germany Michael S. Gassner is conference director of the 2004 First Islamic Finance Summit in Frankfurt, Germany. He works in the field of institutional real estate as an agent for Muslim investors as a consultant for Islamic finance and real estate in Germany. Gassner manages the portal Islamicfinance.de. His professional experience ranges from business development in the New Economy to sales as independent financial advisor. Regarding Islamic Finance, Gassner seeks to fund a non bank financial institution for the local German market. He started in banking in 1986 with an apprenticeship in a cooperative bank. During his studies he learned Arabic in Syria, Egypt, and Tunisia. Gassner studied business administration at University Siegen in Germany and graduated with a Master’s in 1999. He has published in the fields of Islamic finance and real estate in leading German magazines.
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