Don Babai is an Associate of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. His research interests include banking and finance in the contemporary Middle East and the development policies of international financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. He has taught, mainly in the area of international political economy, at Harvard, Boston University, the University of Maryland, College Park, and the University of California, Davis. He holds a doctorate in international relations from the University of California, Berkeley.

Henry T. Azzam is chairman of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region at Deutsche Bank and has written five books on the region’s economy and capital markets. He is an Expert on the Middle East and the economic influences specific to the region. Dr. Azzam’s career in the MENA region includes time spent as chairman of the board of NASDAQ Dubai, chairman of Dubai International Financial Exchange, CEO of Jordan Investment Trust, and as an international advisory board member at the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul).

Lecturer, College of Islamic Banking, World Al-Lootah University (Internet), Dubai. Ph. D. (Economics).

Governor of the Central Bank of Malaysia (Bank Negara Malaysia). Zeti has played a crucial role in efforts to modernise Malaysia’s financial system, and has worked tirelessly to promote Islamic finance, financial inclusion and South-east Asian integration.

Pakistani economist and financier who served as Prime Minister of Pakistan from 20 August 2004 to 15 November 2007, as well as the Finance Minister of Pakistan from 6 November 1999 to 15 November 2007. His time in government was marked by high economic growth, exchange rate stability, a reduction in poverty and an upsurge in local and foreign investment. Aziz is a senior visiting research fellow at Green Templeton College, Oxford University, and an Honorary Doctor of Laws at the Institute of Business Administration, University of Karachi.

Sartaj Aziz (February 1929) is a Pakistani economist and a strategist who serves as the deputy chairman of the Planning Commission of Pakistan. Previously, he served as a member of the federal cabinet as the de facto Minister for Foreign Affairs, also a Federal Senator and the National Security Advisor. He studied economics at Punjab University and later studied public administration at Harvard Kennedy School.