(Chairman, B.S. Abdur Rahman University, Chennai, India) Abdul Qadir Abdul Rahman Buhari is a Mech.Engr (CEG, Anna University, India) and MBA(Babson College, MA-USA). His father B.S. Abdur Rahman is an illustrious business magnate and founder share holder of ETA Ascon Star Group, a multi-billion dollar business venture headquartered in Dubai, UAE. Abdul Qadir is in the board of various ETA Companies and has day to day management responsibility in a ship owning company, Automobile Dealership Companies, a 10 MW bio mass power plant and Chairman of B.S. Abdur Rahman University.

(Managing Director, ASSAIF, Kabul, Afghanistan) Alberto G Brugnoni, a former director with Merrill Lynch, is the Founder and Managing Partner of ASSAIF, the oldest European consultancy on Islamic finance. In the mid-1980s, he pioneered Islamic transactions in Europe, and in Sept 1986 attended the 1st US Conference on Islamic Finance convened in Washington, DC by the World Bank. In 1997, he released “Pilot Project Genoardo”, a seminal study for the establishment of a Mediterranean Development Bank based on Shari‘a principles.

(Sharia Scholar & Senior Associate, Bank of New York Mellon, Houston, Texas) Joe Bradford is a graduate of Islamic studies, holding a Master of Islamic Law from the University of Medina. Formerly a Senior Sharia consultant with Al-Rajhi Bank and AlRajhi Capital, Saudi Arabia, he now works as for the Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company in Corporate Trust and Financial Markets

(Managing Partner, Shekra Crowdfunding, Cairo, Egypt) Adel is the Managing Partner of Shekra Crowdfunding, a company specialized to improve the entrepreneurial ecosystem in MENA and a serial entrepreneur who also co-founded NaviWare and its real estate product RealSync, with 9 years of experience in the software industry and proven track record in software design, implementation, systems architecture, data analysis, project management, and data mining.

(Chief Executive Officer, Alinma Tokio Marine, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) A thought-leader of takaful, its practitioner and promoter for more than 23 years. Pioneered early research work in

(Project Manager, Takaful department, AIDIMM, Paris, France) After working three years for PricewaterhouseCoopers as a financial engineer supporting actuaries, Arslan Bendimerad joined SCOR Global Life SE in 2010 as an actuarial analyst.

(Assistant Professor, Salman bin Abdulaziz University, Al Kharj, Saudi Arabia) Azhar Assan is currently working as an Assistant professor at Salman bin Abdulaziz University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Prior to this, he worked as a research associate at Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, Kerala, India. He holds PhD in Finance from University of Hyderabad, a top tier University in India. He has research interest in corporate Finance, Islamic Finance and Financial Markets.

(General Counsel, FWU Global Takaful Solutions, Dubai, United Arab Emirates) Dr. Allam holds a PhD in Islamic Insurance law from the Sorbonne-Assas University in Paris, France. She is a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales and a member of the Law Society of England and Wales.

(Researcher, International Shari’ah Research Academy, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) Muhammad Ali Jinnah Ahmad is the current Researcher cum Takaful Unit Leader from the International Shari’ah Research Academy for Islamic Finance (ISRA). He is also the Chairman of Shari’ah Committee (SC) for HSBC Amanah

(Assistant Professor, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India) Asif Akhtar is working as Assistant Professor in the area of Islamic Finance.