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Vice Mayor for Planning & Urban Development, Municipality of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Government
Dr Abdulgader Amir assumes office since April 2007 as the Vice mayor for Urban Planning for the Municipality of Jeddah. Dr Amir worked as the chief planner in the municipality of Jeddah from August 2005 until April 2007. Dr Amir taught at King Fahd university of Petroleum and minerals at Dhahran, more
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Chief Executive Officer, British Property Federation
Liz was a career civil servant with the Ministry of Defence for many years working on a range of projects from Northern Ireland to defence estates acquisitions and public inquiries.
During the 1990s she was a key player in the team that set up the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency and more
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Director of 2012 Games, Think London
Brendan Dineen is Director of 2012 Games for Think London. In this role Brendan is responsible for developing and implementing the strategy by which London will use the games as a catalyst to further increase Foreign Direct Investment In London.
Brendan started this role in September 2006 w more
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Head of Inward Investment, Business Growth & Trade, London Development Agency
Chris joined the London Development Agency as Head of Inward Investment, Business Growth and Trade in January 2008. He was previously at Greater London Enterprise, where he managed one of the teams delivering advisory services and support to a wide range of London companies interested in developing more
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Partner, Shariah Solutions LLP
Raficq Abdulla is an Oxford-trained lawyer whose experience covers over 40 years first as legal counsel and company secretary in the private sector before taking up the post of University Secretary and legal adviser to Kingston University which he relinquished in 2006. He is now a Visiting Fellow of more
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Head of International Real Estate Department, Kuwait Finance House
Mr. Ali O. Al-Ghannam is Department Manager in the International Real Estate Department at Kuwait Finance House ("KFH"). He joined KFH in February 2002, and has been part of the acquisition and deal structuring team. Prior to joining KFH, Mr. Al-Ghannam was with Kuwait Real Estate Investment Consort more
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Partner, Ashurst
Abradat Kamalpour is an international finance partner in the securities and structured finance group in London. He has extensive experience in securitisation, debt capital markets and structured finance transactions. Mr. Kamalpour has been at the forefront of structuring Islamic-compliant capital ma more
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Head – Real Estate, Investment Funds, Global Investment House
Rakesh is responsible for structuring and investing real estate funds on a worldwide basis. He has over 12 years of experience, including 4 years of experience in investing capital in key markets in the United States, The Gulf Region & South Asia. Rakesh also has experience in investing capital acco more
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Managing Director, DDCAP
Stella Cox is Managing Director of DDCAP and its subsidiaries DD&Co Limited and DDGI Limited. Stella and her team are responsible for DDCAP’s Islamic and Middle Eastern clients and market activities. DDCAP’s wholly owned subsidiary, DD&Co, is a leading provider of asset facilitation services to the more
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Editor, Islamic Banker
Mushtak Parker is the Editor of Islamic Banker, the market reference for the global Islamic finance sector. He has covered the sector for more than three decades and has written extensively on the sector - over 3,000 articles. He was a correspondent for the FT Group of Publications for more than 14 more
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Chairman, Volterra
Bridget is one of the UK’s most influential economists, with a twenty year track record in advising public and private sector clients on key strategic issues. Her specialist expertise includes economic development, transport and agglomeration economics, development evaluation, infrastructure, foreca more
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Managing Director, Global Securities House UK
Richard is Chairman of Gatehouse Bank plc, the 5th Sharia compliant bank recently authorised by the FSA in London, and Managing Director of GSH (UK) Ltd, a Sharia compliant investment and advisory firm also based in the City of London and also authorised by the FSA. Both companies are ultimately s more
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Chief Executive Officer Middle East, Strutt & Parker
Andrew is a Partner of Strutt & Parker and is CEO of their Middle East business. The business was founded over 120 years ago and is one of the largest privately owned, independent property firms in the United Kingdom. Strutt & Parker have a national network of 51 offices and employ over 900 personn more
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Executive Vice Chairman Co-Founder and Executive Vice Chairman, Arady PSC
Ali Al Zaabi, Executive Vice Chairman Co-Founder and Executive Vice Chairman of Arady PSC Outstanding expertise in the real estate and hospitality sector President of Millennium Hotels and Resorts MENA Previously the General Manager at Abu Dhabi National Hotel Responsible for North American Real Est more
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Chief Executive Officer And Chief Investment Officer, Oasis
Adam Ismail Ebrahim was educated at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, where he received his B.Soc.Sc (Hons) degree. He then completed a Post Graduate Diploma in Accounting and was admitted as a Chartered Accountant and Auditor in South Africa. Adam has also completed the CFA Institute’s C more
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Partner, Trowers & Hamlins LLP
Sarah is a partner in Trowers & Hamlins banking and finance department and has been advising on Islamic finance for well over ten years. She is co-head of the firm's cross departmental Islamic finance group . She advises regularly on a variety of Islamic investments and structures . Sarah more
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Head of Commercial Division, Strutt & Parker
Andy is Head of the Commercial Division of Strutt & Parker, one of the largest privately owned property firms in the UK. He has extensive experience in funding, investment and corporate work and is involved in numerous placement and fund tasking activities. He established SPREFS, a financial servi more
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Group Chief Executive, Jasper Capital
Having graduated from London University with an honours degree in history in 1983, Jason joined Lloyds Bank International and spent ten years in various postings in South America, Australasia and the Middle East. He then joined Saudi International Bank, a Saudi government controlled consortium bank more
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Chief Executive Officer – Saudi Projects Company, AlAman Investment Co
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Senior Economist, HSBC
Having studied Economics at Sussex and London Universities, Mark is now Senior Economist in the Business Economics Unit at HSBC Bank plc.
He is responsible for advising the Bank and its customers on developments in the UK and global economies, and the performance of regions and key industry sec more
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Managing Director, Strutt & Parker Real Estate Financial Services
Previously with LET plc. and then SPP where he helped set up the fund management division, Celexa. During the 1990s Celexa was one of the best performing real estate asset managers with consistent good performance. He joined forces with Strutt & Parker in 2001 to set up SPREFS to provide a range of more
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Managing Director of Global Business Development, Aviva
Chris has overall responsibility for the External Property Funds team at Aviva Investors including the management of existing mandates, the development of new business and developing new property vehicles. Chris joined the firm in 1987. Chris set up the UK's first Authorised Property Unit Trust (Nor more
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Head of Islamic Finance, Burges Salmon
Imam Qazi has been with Burges Salmon LLP since 1997 and is an experienced real estate lawyer acting for investment funds, landowners and funders. Since 2005 Imam has been specialising in shariah compliant real estate finance and investment and has worked with UK based Islamic banks and windows in d more
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Chief Executive Officer, Sakana Holistic Housing Solutions BSC
R. Lakshmanan is the Chief Executive Officer of Sakana Holistic Housing Solutions BSC (c), Kingdom of Bahrain. His overall responsibilities include overseeing the development and implementation of a full range of real estate solutions and associated multi-level services for individuals and companies more
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Chairman, David Lock Associates Ltd
David Lock is Chairman and Managing Director of David Lock Associates Ltd (planners and urban designers in Milton Keynes and Melbourne, Australia) and Chairman of DLA Architects Practice Ltd; and a Director of Integrated Transport Planning Ltd. He was Chief Planning Adviser (half time) to the De more
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Chief Executive Officer, Gatehouse Bank
David Testa is currently CEO of Gatehouse Bank plc. Gatehouse received its licence to operate as a
Shariah-compliant investment bank based in the City of London from the Financial Services Authority
in April 2008. Gatehouse will focus on Islamic capital markets, institutional wealth management and more
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Chief Executive Officer, Barwa Al Khor
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Chief Executive Officer, AlAman Investment Co (kuwait)
Mr. Al-Qahtany is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Al Aman in Kuwait. Prior to joining Al Aman, Mr. Al Qahtany occupied positions in the Ministry of Finance in Kuwait and in the International & Financial Investments Company, Kuwait where he was Deputy General Manager. He appears on the board more
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Manager of Legal Affairs & Sharia Compliance, Bank of London and The Middle East Plc
Dr. Fahad Al-Zumai, LLB (Kuwait University), LLM- International Business Law (University of Manchester), MA International Business (London Metropolitan University), LLM- Corporate Finance Law- (University of Westminster), PhD (University of London), is a qualified Kuwaiti lawyer, former lawyer in Cl more
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Shariah Scholar
Sheikh Yaquby sits on the Islamic supervisory boards of several Islamic financial institutions and is an active scholar in Islamic finance. He received a BA degree in Economics and Comparative Religion from McGill Univer ity (Canada) and is currently completing his PhD in Islamic law at University o more
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Sharia Scholar
Tawfique Chowdhury is the founder and director general of AlKauthar Institute and Mercy Mission. AlKauthar Institute, the world’s largest Islamic tertiary education institute outside of the USA, now enriches lives through knowledge on 5 continents with thousands of students around the globe. Mercy more
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