Assistant Professor, New Hampshire College; Manchester, N.H. Shaikh Abdul Hamid is an Assistant Professor of Finance at New Hampshire College Graduate School of Business and Visiting Assistant Professor at Northeastern University. He was formerly Assistant Professor at Boston University and Lecturer at Boston University and Dhaka University. He consulted for a number of projects in Bangladesh in the 1980s. Hamid obtained his B.A. and MBA at the University of Dhaka and his D.B.A. in Financial Economics from Boston University.

Doctoral Student, University of New Orleans; New Orleans, La. M. Imtiaz Ahmed Mazumder is currently a doctoral candidate in financial economics in the Department of Economics and Finance at the University of New Orleans. His interests lie in the areas of financial institutions, international finance, and monetary economics. He was formerly Assistant Professor of Economics at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology in Bangladesh. Mazumder earned his B.A. (Honors) and M.A. in Economics from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Governor, Bahrain Monetary Agency; Manama, Bahrain Ahmed Bin Mohammed Al-Khalifa is Governor of the Bahrain Monetary Agency. He is responsible for the issuance of currency within Bahrain, the maintenance of the external value of the currency, the management of foreign exchange reserves, the regulation of the banking sector, and the advising of the Government, through the Minister of Finance and National Economy, on matters affecting the monetary and financial condition of the economy.