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Nabil ben Mohamed AlMaghrebi is a professor of finance at the Graduate School of Economics, Wakayama University, and visiting professor at the Center for the Study of Finance and Insurance, Osaka University, Japan. He served as director of the Keisoku Institute of Economics and Econometrics and has more than two decades of experience in academic research and teaching at Japanese national universities. He was research fellow at the International Institute for Advanced Studies in Kyoto and visiting scholar at the International Center for Education in Islamic Finance in Kuala Lumpur. He earned his Ph.D. in finance from Osaka University, and has authored several publications on the topics of financial stability, the model-free volatility index, Islamic finance, and financial regulation.

Abbas Mirakhor is currently the first holder of the Chair of Islamic Finance at the International Center for Education in Islamic Finance (INCEIF). He has served as the dean of the executive board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 1997–2008, and as the executive director representing Afghanistan, Algeria, Ghana, Iran, Morocco, Pakistan, and Tunisia from 1990–2008. He has authored numerous publications and research papers on Islamic finance; among them are Introduction to Islamic Finance (Wiley, 2011), Risk Sharing in Islamic Finance (Wiley, 2011), and The Stability of Islamic Finance (Wiley, 2010).

Zamir Iqbal is lead financial sector specialist at the Finance and Markets Global Practice of the World Bank. He heads the World Bank Global Islamic Finance Development Center in Istanbul. He has more than 20 years of experience at the World Bank Treasury in capital markets, asset management, and risk management. Islamic finance is his research focus, and he has coauthored several books on Islamic finance on the topics of banking risk, financial stability, and risk-sharing. His latest coedited book, Economic Development and Islamic Finance, was published by the World Bank in 2013. He earned his Ph.D. in international finance from George Washington University and served as professional faculty at the Carey Business School at Johns Hopkins University.