(Senior Advisor, SEDCO, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) Yousuf Khayat joined SEDCO in 1996 as Senior Vice President of the Financial Investment Group. For eight years, he oversaw the development and implementation of SEDCO's financial investments program. That program included externally-advised listed equity portfolios, venture capital and private equity funds, fixed income investments and timber funds and all investments were shari‘a-compliant. He then became the Managing Director of SEDCO's Direct Investment Group and since January 2011 he has been a Senior Advisor to the CEO of SEDCO Holdings.

(Head, Business & Marketing Dept, Arab-American University, Palestine Arab-American University, Palestine) Rasem N. Kayed is currently the head of the Business Administration and Marketing Departments at the Arab American University in Palestine. Kayed received both his undergraduate degree as well as his MBA degree from Jacksonville State University and obtained his PhD in Development Studies from Massey University in New Zealand.

(U.S. Special Envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Washington, D.C.) President Barack Obama announced the appointment of Rashad Hussain as Special Envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on February 13, 2010. As Special Envoy to the OIC, Hussain seeks to deepen and expand the partnerships that the United States has pursued with

(Vice President, Islamic Development Bank, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) Abdul Aziz Al-Hinai was appointed as the Vice President Finance of the Jeddah based Islamic Development Bank in August 2008. IDB’s primary objective is to foster the economic development and social progress of member countries. As Vice President of Finance, Al-Hinai led the organizational reform of the Finance Complex, orchestrated a resource mobilization strategy for the Bank which taps into international financial markets (

(Assistant Secretary General, Islamic Financial Services Board, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) Abdullah Haron is the Assistant Secretary General at the Islamic Financial Services Board. His primary responsibilities are the development of prudential standards and guidance notes and fostering the relationship between the IFSB and external organizations especially with regards to the development of this prudential framework. He has participated in the IMF mission on Islamic Finance and has spoken at a number of international conferences.

(Distinguished Fellow, International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) Mustapha Hamat has over thirty years of experience in the banking and finance industry, with twenty-three years specifically in the Islamic banking field. His major contributions include the setting up of the first Shari‘a-based bank in Malaysia. Upon his retirement as CEO of the Institute of Islamic Banking and Finance (IBFIM) he was appointed as a “Distinguished Academic Fellow” of the Institute of Islamic Banking and Finance, International Islamic University, Kuala Lumpur (IIiBF).

(Professor of the Practice, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts) Partha Sarathy Ghosh serves as Director of Pharmaceuticals Sales at Pfizer Ltd., where he has worked since November 2003. Ghosh worked as Vice President of Business Development biopharmaceuticals at Avestha Gengraine Technologies Pvt. Ltd. He served as Business Head of Dairy Division at Britannia Industries Ltd and is currently the Chairman of the Board of Boston Analytics. For nearly thirty years, Ghosh has advised businesses and governments worldwide.

(Professor, Solvay Brussels School of Economics & Management (SBS-EM), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium) Laurent Gheeraert holds a Ph.D. in finance and economics from the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (Université Libre de Bruxelles), where he is now a Professor of Finance. Until 2005, he was a Business Analyst at the Benelux office of McKinsey & Company, during which time he was involved in strategic, operational, and organizational projects across various industry sectors.

(Director, Justice, Peace & Integrity of Creation, Missionary Oblates, Washington, D.C.) Reverend Finn has been the Director of the Justice/Peace and Integrity of Creation Ministry, Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate in Washington DC since 1986. The office supports the mission of the congregation and is also responsible for the Socially Responsible Investment program both for the U.S. province and for the General Administration of the congregation.

(Bemis Professor of International Law, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts) Feldman is the Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School. He is also a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Before joining the Harvard faculty, Feldman was Cecelia Goetz Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. He was named a Carnegie Scholar in 2005.