Abdul Ghafar Ismail Editor & Author

Dr. Muhamed Zulkhibri is a Senior Economist at Islamic Research and Training Institute, Islamic Development Bank, Saudi Arabia with years of progressive experience in the Central Bank of Malaysia and policy-oriented institutions. He involved in developing countries partnership strategy, undertaken research projects and advisory works with other development and policy-oriented institutions globally. He has authored extensively on Monetary Economics, Financial Institutions and Markets, Finance and Economic Development, Islamic Economics and Finance, with more than 80 research articles in leading academic journal, regulatory publication, industry report and the financial press. He has been invited to speak at many international conferences and he has lectured for under- and post-graduate program at the University of Nottingham, U.K and University Putra Malaysia. He earned a Ph.D in economics from University of Nottingham, United Kingdom. 

Dr. Abdul Ghafar Ismail is the Head of Research division, Islamic Research and Training Institute, Islamic Development Bank and a professor of banking and financial economics at the University Kebangsaan Malaysia. He is on leave from School of Economics, University Kebangsaan Malaysia. He has been lecturing at the university since 1987 on economics and finance courses such as money and banking, financial economics, advanced macroeconomics, Islamic economics system, money and capital market in Islam and international finance; Islamic banking; money, zakat and the real economy; risk management in Islamic banking; Islamic financial management. His specialization is in the area of Islamic economics and finance. He has a Ph.D in economics from the University of Southampton, United Kingdom.

Dr. Sutan Emir Hidayat is the Head of Business Administration Department at University College of Bahrain, Bahrain. He has presented research papers at reputable international conferences such as the IRTI conferences, the GRM 2012, University of Cambridge, U.K, the 11th Harvard University Forum on Islamic Finance, USA. He was also invited to speak at AAOIFI-World Bank Annual Conference and MEIF 2015. He has also published research papers in international journals and become a reviewer for the IMEFM, Emerald and Review of Financial Economics, Elsevier. He also has contributed chapters in four books. He is an Islamic finance journalist regularly publishes articles in Islamic Finance News. During his academic career, he has supervised and examined 32 Master Theses. Recognizing his contribution, he has been listed and awarded by ISFIN in Islamica 500 as one of the top 50 most influential people to the Islamic economy in 2015 on a global scale.