Wael Kamal Eid, PhD is the Chief Risk Officer at SEDCO Holding and the Chairman of the Audit and Risk Committee of Al Nahdi Medical Company, and Member of AutoWorld Audit Committee. He is a risk specialist in Islamic banking who holds an MBA with Distinction from Warwick Business School, and a PhD in risk management from Durham University.

Dr. Eid has extensive experience in risk management and Islamic banking in the Middle East and Europe. He is also a guest lecturer on Risk Management and Islamic Finance at distinguished universities and speaks regularly at international risk management events and conferences. Dr. Eid is the winner of the 2015 Golden Peacock Award for Risk Management by the prestigious Institute of Directors (IoD).

Mehmet Asutay is a Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Political Economy and Finance at the Durham University Business School; Director of the Durham Centre in Islamic Economics and Finance; and Programme Director for the MSc in Islamic Finance and the MSc in Islamic Finance and Management programmes and the Durham Islamic Finance Summer School. Mehmet's teaching, research, publication and supervision of research all falls within Islamic moral economy/Islamic economics, Islamic political economy, Islamic finance and banking, Islamic governance and management and the Middle Eastern political economies. His articles on his research interests have been published in various international academic journals and professional magazines. He has also published and edited books on aspects of Islamic moral economy and Islamic finance.