Research Fellow, University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom Gaffar Abdalla Ahmed received his Ph.D. from the School of Economics, Finance, and Business at Durham University in 2007. His thesis was entitled, “The Participatory Finance (musharakah) in Sudanese Banking System: Perceptions on Performance, Obstacles, and Prospects.” Currently, Ahmed is serving as a research fellow in Islamic finance at Durham University. He also holds BSc. and MSc. degrees in Banking Studies from the Sudan University for Science and Technology.

(Lecturer, Fletcher School, Tufts University; Medford, MA) Kim Wilson is a lecturer at The Fletcher School and a Fellow with the Center for Emerging Market Enterprises and the Feinstein International Center at Tufts University. Spending time in India beginning in 2001 through 2005, Wilson worked closely with savings groups, connecting them to banks with a particular focus on tribal areas. She has worked for Catholic Relief Services heading their Microfinance Unit, and in that tenure, spearheaded CRS' shift from focusing on credit to the poor to savings of the poor.

(Professor Emeritus, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, U.P., India)..Siddiqi is Professor Emeritus of the Aligarh

(Senior Researcher, Mossavar-Rahmani Cener for Business & Government, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA) Marcy Murninghan has been a scholar-practitioner, activist, writer, educator, and public servant for over 30 years. She is founding president of The Lighthouse Investment Group, which consults on fiduciary duty and corporate social responsibility for institutional investors.

(Bentley University, Waltham, MA) Having grown up in Germany, Maher Milly moved to the US to pursue his academic and professional career. He graduated as valedictorian from one of the top US boarding schools, Mercersburg Academy, and went to Bentley University on a full-tuition scholarship. In May 2009, he graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Finance and Liberal Studies. Upon graduation, he completed a summer internship at a start-up equity fund (Endurant Capital Management) in Boston. In addition, he passed the CFA Level 1 exam in December 2009.

(Director/Portfolio Manager, Socially Aware Investment Proram, ClearBridge Advisors, New York, NY) McQuillen is the Director and Portfolio Manager for the Socially Aware Investment (SAI) Program at ClearBridge Advisors for the various SAI strategies. Mcquillen has been with the SAI program at a predecessor firm since 1996 and has 13 years of investment industry experience. She serves on the Board of Directors for the New York Society of Security Analysts (NYSSA) and is the former Chair of its Sustainable Investing Committee.

(Masters Candidate, Fletcher School, Tufts University; Medford, MA) Martin is a Masters candidate at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, where she is focusing on the role of technology and monitoring and evaluation in increasing the effectiveness of development aid. After planning M-Banking 2009 in Nairobi, Kenya, she has been working as a monitoring and evaluation intern at Twaweza, a Tanzanian-based non-profit that seeks to enable people in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda to improve their quality of life through a bold citizen-centered approach to development and public accountability.

(Co-founder, KLD Research & Analytics, Boston, MA) Lydenberg is Chief Investment Officer for Domini Social Investments LLC. He has been active in social investing for 30 years as Director of Corporate Accountability Research with the Council on Economic Priorities, Investment Associate with Franklin Research and Development Corporation (now Trillium Asset Management), and Director of Research with Kinder, Lydenberg, Domini & Co. (now KLD Research & Analytics). Mr.

(Chief Executive Officer, Fajr Capital Ltd., Dubai, UAE) Khan serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Fajr Capital Limited. Previously, he was Founding CEO of HSBC Amanah, where he built the business and team over eight years as one of the fastest growing and most successful emerging businesses in the HSBC Group. Khan was a member of the Boards of Directors of HSBC Bank Middle East, The Saudi British Bank, and HSBC Investment Bank (Saudi Arabia). He reported directly to the HSBC Group Holdings Group CEO and now Chairman, Stephen Green.

(Acting Director, ILSP & Affiliated Professor of Law, Harvard Law School and Professor of Islamic Religious Studies, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA) Johansen was appointed Professor of Islamic Religious Studies at Harvard Divinity School in 2005. He was directeur d'études at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Centre d'étude des normes juridiques), Paris (1995–2005), and Professor for Islamic Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin (1972–1995).