Syed Nazim Ali is a Research Professor and the Director for the Research Division and the Center for Islamic Economics and Finance, College of Islamic Studies, at the Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar Foundation. He has spent the last thirty years spearheading research in Islamic Finance and faith-based initiates in Finance. He was Founding Director of the Islamic Finance Project (IFP) at Harvard Law School, Harvard University, since 1995. He has paid special attention to lines of inquiry that seek to examine and interrogate the frontiers, facilitate research and encourage dialogue among various stakeholders and external discussants. He has played a lead role in organizing several conferences and seminars, creating forums for highly intellectual debates on global trends. He has published many books, including Takaful and Islamic Cooperative Finance: Challenges and Opportunities (2016); and Shari'a-Complaint Microfinance (2012). 

Zul Hakim Jumat is a researcher for the Center of Islamic Economics and Finance (CIEF), College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Qatar Foundation. He has been a part of several organizing committees for Islamic Finance conferences and seminars, providing an intellectual platform for industry leaders and academia to discuss global emerging trends and issues. Before joining CIEF, he was a research editor at Dow Jones Risk & Compliance team, focusing on Sanction Ownership Research. He holds an MSc in Islamic Finance (2018) from HBKU, majoring in Islamic Corporate Finance and Asset Management, and a BSc (Hons) in Islamic Jurisprudence and Principles of Jurisprudence (2015) from Kuwait University, minoring in Economics. Currently, he is a Ph.D. candidate in Islamic Economics and Finance at HBKU.