David is a Professor of Economics. BA (Econ), MA (Econ), PhD. David's main research interests are: Monetary policy and central bank independence, primarily in the UK and continental Europe, European monetary integrationFinancial systems, Middle Eastern economies. David joined Heriot-Watt in 2006. Member of the committee of the Money, Macro and Finance Research Group. Associate Editor of the Review of Middle East Economics and Finance

EDWARD J. AND LOUISE E. MELLEN CHAIR IN FINANCE, PROFESSOR OF FINANCE. Ph.D. University of Arizona . M.B.A. University of North Carolina at Wilmington. B.S. Texas A&M University . Professor Elliott has research interests in stock splits, security issuance, capital structure, valuation, executive compensation, and mergers.

Murat Çizakça is the Professor of Islamic Finance, Comparative Economic and Financial History at INCEIF in Kuala Lumpur. He is also a member of the Executive Academic Board of Istituto di Storia Economica in Prato, Italy. Mr. Çizakça received his Ph.D. in Economics and Economic History Program at the University of Pennsylvania in 1978. He went on to become a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Berlin, Germany, during the 1997-98 academic year.

Citi Islamic Investment Bank was established in 1996. It is a subsidiary of the US-based global banking group Citigroup. It is based in Bahrain and offers Islamic banking products. Those products include trade finance, structured trade finance, leasing, fund management and Islamic securities.

Senior international development executive, lawyer and leader with over 25 years of experience at the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund in strategy development, policy formulation and implementation, change management, negotiations, conflict resolution, and leading or advising on, complex and sensitive development projects, programs, and partnerships at the global and country level in all geographic regions. and served earlier in the Bank as Chief Counsel, Operations Policy and as legal advisor on Governance and Anti-corruption.

General Counsel - Gatehouse Bank plc, UK. He is a UK qualified solicitor with more than 15 years in-house experience with Sharia compliant banks in the UK and GCC, having held senior positions at Al Hilal Bank, EIIB, Dubai Islamic Bank and Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank. He has experience in both corporate and transactional law and has worked on establishment and listing of a Bank, issue of sukuk, financing, funds and private equity.