Islamic Development Bank, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Fuad Abdullah Al-Omar has been the Vice President of Finance at the Islamic Development Bank since 1989. He has a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts, an MBA from Boston University, Massachusetts, and a Ph.D. in Public Administration from the University of Leicester, England. Al-Omar has published numerous books, research papers, and articles.
Social Investment Bank Ltd., Dhaka, Bangladesh. M.A. Mannan is currently the Founder and Chairman of Social Investment Bank Ltd. Prior to this, he worked at the Islamic Development Bank as an Economist and at King Abdulaziz and Georgetown Universities as a Professor. He has nearly 40 years of experience working in Islamic banking, finance, and economic planning. Dr. Mannan holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from the University of Michigan.
King & Spalding, New York, New York. W. Donald Knight, Jr., is a senior partner in King & Spalding’s Corporate Practice Department and chairs its International Practice Group. He has authored several papers and articles on international law and taxation. He is the author of Structuring Foreign Investment in U.S. Real Estate. He received his law degree from the University of Virginia in 1967. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the North American Free Trade and Investment Report, Boston.
Emerging Markets Partnership, Washington, District of Columbia. Mumtaz Khan is currently Managing Director of Emerging Markets Partnership (EMP) in Washington, DC, which was established in 1992. For the past three years, Khan was the Resident Partner and Manager of Asian operations of the US$1.1 billion AIG-Asian Infrastructure Fund in Hong Kong. He was formerly the Manager of the Asia Department at the International Finance Corporation (IFC). He has an MBA from the Iran Center for Management Studies, Tehran, and a B.Sc.
HSBC Investment Bank Plc, London, England. Iqbal Ahmad Khan is currently Managing Director and Head of Global Islamic Finance for HSBC Group. He was formerly Managing Director of Citi Islamic Investment Bank and Global Head of Islamic Finance for Citicorp. Before that, Khan worked for the DMI Group’s subsidiary Islamic Investment Company of the Gulf, Bahrain. He was also a member of the Management Committee of the DMI Group. Khan has a B.Sc. in Physics and Chemistry and an M.A. in Political Science and International Relations, both from Aligarh
Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions, Manama, Bahrain. Rifaat Ahmed Abdel-Karim is currently the Secretary General of the Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI), a post he has held since 1995. He obtained a B.Sc. from Khartoum University, Sudan, an M.Sc. from Birmingham University, UK, and a Ph.D. from Bath University, UK, all in accounting and finance. He is the joint founding editor of the newly launched journal Research in Islamic Business, Finance and Accounting.
Islamic Development Bank, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Munawar Iqbal is currently the Chief of the Islamic Banking and Finance Division, Islamic Research and Training Institute (IRTI), at the Islamic Development Bank, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He is the author of several research articles and publications, including Islamic Banking as an Alternative Model of Development Financing: The Case of the Islamic Development Bank, a paper presented at an international workshop organized by the IDRC, Montreal, Canada, in 1997. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Simon Fraser University, Canada.
ANZ Investment Bank, London, England. Syed Tariq Husain is currently Director and Head of Global Islamic Finance at ANZ Investment Bank, London, as well as Head of ANZ Investment Banking Division, Pakistan. His Islamic finance responsibilities include supervision of a full range of Islamic financial products to complement the capabilities of ANZ Investment Banking. In 1997, ANZ Islamic Finance successfully established an Islamic cross-border asset-backed fund, and made him the nominee director. Husain is a Chartered Accountant and has an MBA from York University, Toronto, Canada.
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Walid Hegazy is a doctoral candidate at the Harvard Law School. His thesis focuses on long-term Islamic financial instruments. He holds LL.M. degrees from Harvard Law School and Paris IX University. He is admitted to the Cairo Bar Association. Hegazy has worked for the law firm of White and Case in New York City and for the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation in Amsterdam. He also served as an intern with the Office of the Legal Council of the United Nations, where he helped interpret important Security Council resolutions.
The International Investor, London, England. Basil Al-Ghalayini is Managnig Director of The International Investor Advisory Group in London, England. Before joining TII in 1993, he worked for seven years at the Investment Management Division, National Commercial Bank of Saudi Arabia, in Jeddah and London. He is also the Secretary General of the Arab Bankers Association of the UK and a board member of the Saudi British Society. He received his B.Sc. degree from King Saud University, Riyadh, in 1983 and his CSS from Harvard University in 1986.