Editors

About the Editor

Zamir Iqbal works as Lead Investment Officer with the Quantitative Strategies, Risk and Analytics department at the Treasury of the World Bank in Washington, D.C. He earned his PhD in International Finance from the George Washington University, USA, where he also serves as adjunct faculty of International Finance. He has published numerous articles and presented at international forums on Islamic finance. He has extensive experience with capital markets, structured products, risk management, financial sector development, and financial modelling. His research interests include Islamic Finance, Financial Engineering, Structured Finance and International Banking. He is co-author of Introduction to Islamic Finance: Theory and Practice (2007), Risk Analysis for Islamic Banks (2007), and New Issues in Islamic Finance and Economics: Progress and Challenges (2009), Globalization and Islamic Finance: Convergence, Prospects, and Challenges (2009), St

ability of Islamic Finance (2010), and Risk Sharing in Finance: an Islamic Finance Perspective (2012).

Jahangir Sultan is Professor of Finance at Bentley University, USA. He is the Founding Director of The Hughey Center for Financial Services. His research interests include international finance, international investment, financial liberalization in emerging economies, and time-series modeling. He has articles published or forthcoming in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of Financial Research, Journal of Financial Engineering, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Journal of Applied Financial Economics, Real Estate Review, Journal of Futures Markets, Open Economies Review, Pacific Basin Capital Markets Research, Review of Research in Banking and Finance, Binational Fulbright Working Paper Series, the Chicago Board of Trade Working Paper Series, and Columbia University Working Paper Series.

Mehmet Asutay is Reader in Political Economy (Middle East and Islamic Political Economy and Finance) at the University of Durham, UK. He is the Director for the Durham Centre for Islamic Economics and Finance, and Programme Director for MA/MSc in Islamic Finance, a joint programme between the SGIA, the Durham Business School, and the Durham Islamic Finance Programme. He is the Managing Editor of the Review of Islamic Economics; an Associate Editor of the American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences; and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management. He is also the Honorary Treasurer of the British Society for Middle East Studies and of the International Association for Islamic Economics. He researches, teaches, and supervises research on Islamic moral economy, Islami

c banking and finance, Middle Eastern economies, and the political economy of the Middle East. His research has been published in various journals, including Review of Islamic Economics, International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management, and Islamic Economic Studies.