About the Authors
Abbas Mirakhor is currently the First Holder of the Chair of Islamic Finance at the International Center for Education in Islamic Finance. He has served as the dean of the executive board of the International Monetary Fund from 1997 to 2008, and as the executive director representing Afghanistan, Algeria, Ghana, Iran, Morocco, Pakistan, and Tunisia from 1990 to 2008. He has authored numerous publications and research papers on Islamic finance; among them are the Introduction to Islamic Finance (John Wiley & Sons, 2011), Risk Sharing in Islamic Finance (John Wiley & Sons, 2011), and The Stability of Islamic Finance (John Wiley & Sons, 2010).
Noureddine Krichene received his PhD in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1980. He taught Islamic finance at the Global University, International Center for Education in Islamic Finance, Malaysia. He was an economist with the International Monetary Fund from 1986 to 2009. From 2005 to 2007, he was an advisor at the Islamic Development Bank in Saudi Arabia. His areas of expertise are in the international payments system, macroeconomic policies, finance, and energy and water economics.
He is based in Laurel, Maryland.
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