Senior Partner, Amereller Legal Consultants, Berlin/Cairo, Egypt. Dr. Bälz focuses his practice on finance and projects. He has broad experience in advising clients on debt and equity investments in the energy, transportation, telecom and financial sectors across the Middle East (including Iran) and North Africa. He further represents clients in arbitration proceedings. Before joining Amereller as partner in 2010, Dr.

President and CEO, Darul Ehsan Islamic College; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Zainudin Jaffar is currently President and CEO of Darul Ehsan Islamic College, a post he has held since August 1996. He joined the International Islamic University Malaysia in 1985 as an Assistant Lecturer and was appointed Lecturer in 1988, Assistant Professor in 1994. In October 1994, he was appointed Deputy Dean (Academic) at the University’s Matriculation Center. In 1995, he was also made head of the Law Department at the same center.

e is currently the Chairman of the Central Shari’ah Advisory Council of the Central Bank of Malaysia and a member of the Shari’ah Advisory Council of Securities Commission of Malaysia.

British academic economist at the Aston Business School, Aston University, a Vice-Chair of the Regional Studies Association, and an editor of the journals Regional Studies and Policy Studies. ailey studied Economics at the University of Birmingham, winning the Hargreaves-Beare Prize for best graduating student and graduating with a First Class Honours degree in 1988. This was followed by a master's degree at Birmingham in Russian and East European Studies with Economics, and later a PhD at the Birmingham Business School.