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Islamic Finance Forum
Islamic Finance Forum
Hosted by
The U.S. – Qatar Business Council
and
The Arab Bankers Association of Northern America
and in collaboration with
The National Council on US-Arab Relations
July 28, 2010, 9 am – 12 pm
George Washington University Law School, Washington, D.C.
U.S. – Qatar Business Council’s Islamic Finance Forum
Draws High-Level Speakers
August 4, 2010: The U.S. - Qatar Business Council and the Arab Bankers Association of North America, in collaboration with the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations, hosted an inaugural Islamic Finance Forum last month with great success. The Forum drew more than 100 attendees to the George Washington Law School on July 28, 2010. The Forum provided a platform for top Shariah scholars and leaders in the industry to discuss Islamic finance and its potential to affect domestic and global financial markets and economic growth. The Islamic Finance Forum can be viewed in its entirety on USQBC’s website: www.usqbc.org. In addition to the video of the Forum, USQBC’s website includes photographs of the panels.
"Having spoken and attended numerous Islamic Finance conferences over the years, I can say that this conference was by far among the best,” said Forum panelist Umar Moghul, a partner at Murtha Cullina LLP and co-chair of the firm's Islamic Finance and Investments Group. “The presentations were truly substantive, thoughtful and in depth, and the conference was well organized and attended."
Topics addressed at the Forum included: defining Islamic Law; Shariah financial regulation and practice as applied in Qatar and the larger GCC; how the rise of Gulf capital is affecting financial markets—and how it should be regulated; compatibility of Shairah Institutions with U.S. law and regulation; objections by Shariah scholars challenging the permissibility of derivatives under Islamic Law; Islamic Venture Capital; and Dispute Resolution - law, regulation and practice; among other topics.
Forum speakers included: Aamir Rehman, Managing Director at Fajr Capital Limited and author of Dubai & Co.: Global Strategies for Doing Business in the Gulf States and Gulf Capital & Islamic Finance: The Rise of the New Global Players; Umar Moghul, Partner at Murtha Cullina LLP and co-chair of the firm's Islamic Finance and Investments Group; Ibrahim Warde, Adjunct Professor of International Business at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University and author of Islamic Finance in the Global Economy; Shaykh Yusuf Talal DeLorenzo, Chief Shariah Officer at Shariah Capital; and Rushdi Siddiqui, Global Head of Islamic Finance for Thomson Reuters. Frank Vogel, Senior Fellow and Head Muslim World Law and Islamic Finance, Institution Quraysh for Law and Policy and author of The Islamic School of Law: Evolution, Devolution and Progress and Islamic Law and Legal System: Studies of Saudi Arabia. Jean-François Seznec, Visiting Associate Professor at Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, moderated the Panel.
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