Mr. Ajmal Bhatty serves as Chief Executive Officer and President at Tokio Marine Middle East Ltd. Mr. Bhatty has been in insurance and takaful management since 1990. Before coming to Tokio Marine, he served as Global Head of

Head of IFC Middle East and North Africa Fund at IFC Asset Management Company, LLC. He also served as the Chief Executive Officer of Bank Audi Syria SA and served as its Deputy Chairman and General Manager. Mr. Hamwi serves as a Director of Bank Audi Syria SA. He is also employed at IFC Asset Management Company, LLC. He spent 14 years with and was in charge of a number of direct investments in the Mashreq and GCC sub-regions. Mr.

Prior Chief Investment Officer in the Public-Private Partnership Advisory Services Department in Washington, DC. Manager, Public Private Partnerships for Transaction Advisory Services, International Finance Corporation (IFC). Mr. Bhagat has been engaged in extensive operational work in infrastructure portfolio, advisory activities, financial sector investments, private sector investment banking, consulting and finance operations. Previously, he was also Country Manager for the Philippines (based in Manila) and Thailand. Mr.

Presently, director of the Economics and Research division. Previous positions include director of the Statistics and Information division, head of the Monetary and Economic Policy department, Research department, associate professor Money and Banking at the Free University Amsterdam and Research Fellow of the Tinbergen Institute. Phd economics, Groningen University. Masters Degrees in Macroeconomics and Financial Economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam and Tilburg University, respectively. Research interests are Financial markets, Financial institutions , Monetary economics

CEO at International Investment Bank- Bahrain. Prior Deputy Managing Director of Primecorp Investment Management and the Head of Arab Capital Markets. B. Sc - Engineering , University of Bath , UK. MBA - Finance , City University Business School. experienced financial leader with a wealth of experience in traditional and Islamic investment banking in the UK and the Middle East.

Spanish-American economist. She is Professor Emerita at Cornell University's Department of City and Regional Planning. The author and editor of many books and articles, her work has concentrated on topics having to do with labor economics, women's work, the informal economy, Gender and Development, Latin American Development and globalization. Before Cornell, she taught at Rutgers University and has given courses in other international centers. She worked at the ILO for two years and has collaborated with other UN organizations, such as UNIFEM and UNDP, and with several NGOs.

ADJUNCT PROFESSOR - MSB. Author

Researcher and Professor. Ahmed Belouafi is an associate professor of Islamic Economics & finance at the Islamic Economics Institute (IEI), King Abdulaziz University (KAU). He holds a Master’s in Money Banking & Finance and a Ph.D. in Economics from Sheffield University (UK). In the academic year 2013-2014 he was awarded a teaching excellence certificate of the executive education of IE Business School (Madrid-Spain). Prior to joining the IEI he taught Islamic finance courses at the University of Birmingham and London Open College (UK).

Economic Affairs Officer at ECLAC. Senior Economist at Banco Central de Venezuela, 1999 – 2005