Senior Partner, King & Spalding; Atlanta, Ga. 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 B.A. from Mississippi State University, his M.A. from Emory University, and his LL.B. from the University of Virginia. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the North American Free Trade & Investment Report in Boston.

General Manager, Al-Tawfeek, Dallah Albaraka Group; Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Naseeruddin Khan is General Manager of Specialized Funds and Public Relations at Al-Tawfeek Co. for Investment Funds Ltd. (Al-Tawfeek). Al-Tawfeek is one of the major subsidiaries within the Financial Services Sector of Dallah Albaraka Group of Saudi Arabia and has successfully developed and marketed Islamic investment funds in various asset classes. Mr.

Assistant Professor, Adrian College; Adrian, Mich. M.A. Muqtedar Khan is Assistant Professor of International Politics at Adrian College. Khan held faculty positions at Washington College, Georgetown University, and Florida International University from 1991 to 2000. Khan has a B.E. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Osmania University, India, an M.A. in International Studies from Florida International University, an MBA in Strategic Management and Marketing from Bombay University, and a Ph.D. in International Relations from Georgetown University.

Clerk, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; Baltimore, Md. Mohammad Fadel is currently a clerk at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Baltimore, Md. He was previously a clerk at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia. Fadel earned both his B.A. in Government and Foreign Affairs and his J.D. from the University of Virginia. He obtained a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago, where he specialized in medieval Islamic law.

Assistant Professor, Department of Real Estate, National University of Singapore; Singapore Muhammed-Shahid Ebrahim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Real Estate at the National University of Singapore. He was previously a Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Center for Islamic Studies and has been affiliated with such institutions as the University of Brunei Darussalam, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Southern Illinois University. Ebrahim has a B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology, an M.S.

Marketing Director, SAMBA Capital Management International; London, United Kingdom John Bauer is Marketing Director for SAMBA Capital Management International, which he joined in April 1998, and has managed the establishment of SAMBA Asset Management S.A. in Luxembourg, an Islamic investment company. Bauer has been a senior executive for nearly 30 years in major financial institutions around the world, including Merrill Lynch, American Express Bank, NationsBank, The Gulf Bank (Kuwait), and the National Bank of Bahrain.

Associate Professor, International Islamic University; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Mohd. Daud Bakar is Associate Professor of Islamic Law at the International Islamic University in Kuala Lumpur, a post he has held since 1993. He is also Dean of the Center of Postgraduate Studies at the same institution. He was Assistant Lecturer in the same department from 1989 to 1993 and Officer at the Ministry of Awqāf in Kuwait in 1998. Bakar holds a bachelors’ degree in Sharīca from Kuwait University and earned his Ph.D. from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.

Private Consultant; Scottsdale, Ariz. Thomas Tellner is a private consultant to a foreign firm seeking to establish brokerage and fund operations in the U.S. He previously worked as an account manager for Waterhouse Securities in Phoenix, Ariz., and First National Bank of Maryland in Bethesda, Md. Tellner served for six years as an enlisted army aviation crewmember.

Assistant General Manager & Head of Takaful Tacawuni, Bank Aljazira; Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Dawood Taylor is Assistant General Manager and Head of

Senior Researcher, Bank Indonesia; Jakarta, Indonesia Mulya E. Siregar is a senior researcher at the Islamic Banking Research and Development Team within the Directorate of Banking Research and Regulation at Bank Indonesia (the Central Bank of Indonesia). Siregar received a B.Sc. in Agricultural Economics from Bogor Agriculture University in Indonesia, and, from Ohio State University, an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Consumer Economics and an M.Sc. in Agricultural Economics.