Dr. Mohamed Ali Elgari
Dr. Mohamed Ali Elgari is Professor of Islamic Economics and the former Director of the Centre for Research in Islamic Economics at King Abdul Aziz University in Saudi Arabia. Dr. Ali Elgari is an advisor to several Islamic financial institutions throughout the world, and is on the Shariah board of the Dow Jones Islamic index. He is also a member of the Islamic Fiqh Academy as well as the Islamic Accounting & Auditing Organisation for Islamic Financial Institution (AAIOFI). Dr. Elgari has written several books on Islamic banking. He graduated from the University of California with a Ph.D in Economics.

Dr. Mohd Daud Bakar
Dr. Mohd Daud Bakar is currently the Chairman of the Shariah Advisory Council at the Central Bank of Malaysia. Previously, he was the Deputy Rector (Student Affairs and Development) at the International Islamic University Malaysia. Dr. Bakar is a Shariah board member of various financial institutions, including the Accounting and Auditing Organisation for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI) (Bahrain), The International Islamic Financial Market (Bahrain), The Securities Commission of Malaysia, Morgan Stanley (Dubai), and the Bank of London and Middle East (London) among many others.

Dr. Muhammad Amin Ali Qattan
A highly regarded Shariah Scholar based in Kuwait. Dr. Muhammad Amin Ali Qattan has a Ph.D. in Islamic Banking from Birmingham University in the United Kingdom. A lecturer and a prolific author of texts and articles on Islamic economics and finance, Dr. Qattan is currently the Director of Islamic Economics Unit, in the Centre of Excellence in Management at Kuwait University. He also serves as the Shariah advisor to many reputable institutions such as Ratings Intelligence, Standard & Poors Shariah Indices, and the Al Fajer Retakaful, among others.

Dr. Osama Al Dereai
Dr. Osama Al Dereai is a Shariah scholar from Qatar, and has extensive experience in teaching, consulting and research in the field of Islamic finance. Dr. Al Dereai received his Bachelors in the Science of Hadeth Al Sharef from the prestigious Islamic University of Madinah, and his Masters from the International Islamic University (Malaysia). Later, the University of Malaya conferred on him the Doctorate in Islamic Transactions. Dr. Al Dereai is a Shariah board member of various financial institutions, including among others the First Leasing Company, Barwa Bank, First Investment Company, and Ghanim Al Saad Group of Companies.


 

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