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Authors Bio Dr. Mahmood Ahmed is an executive vice president and director general of Islami Bank Training and Research Academy (www.ibtra.com), Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is the author of a book titled "Money and School Banking" and co-author of Text Book on Islamic Banking. He translated, into Bengali, three books of Dr.Umer Chapra: (1) Islam and Economic Development, (2) The Future of Economics in the Perspective of Islam, and (3) Decline of Muslim Civilization: Causes and Remedies. He also contributed 32 articles on Islamic Economics Finance and Banking, in the academic and professional journals, available in www.Google Scholar, www.Academia.edu & www.Researchgate.net,. Dr. Ahmed is a consultant of Islamic microfinance development programme. He contributed to Islamic Development Bank (IDB), Jeddah Microfinance Development Programme (IDB-MDP) Bangladesh. He is a winner of an international bid of the Microfinance Support Centre (MSC) under the Ministry of Finance, Uganda, in 2012, for providing Islamic microfinance consultancy services as chief consultant. He is also a winner of 1st prize in 'Essay Competition - 2104' of Islami Bank Officers' Welfare Association, on "Islamic Banking: The Solution for Global Financial Challenges". He presented papers in international conferences of Islamic Development Bank (IDB), Jeddah. He was a member of Editorial Advisory Board of the 'Lahore Journal of Economics' Pakistan, and is a member of Editorial Boards of Journal of Islamic Economics Banking and Finance. Chandra Setiwan is now President of President University, Indoneisa. He earned his Ph.D. from Graduate School of Management, Malaysia Taufiq Hassan obtained his PhD in 2001 from the University Putra Malaysia and he is a Associates professor in finance at the same university. He has 8 years of teaching and research experience, most of which is undergraduate as well graduate courses in finance. He is noted for his knowledge of applied methodology and provides significant leadership in this regard. His scholarly articles have been published in international and local academic journals. He is actively involved in consultancy work with the Stock Exchange (Bursa Malaysia), the Securities Commission. His current research interests are in Islamic banking; corporate finance; investment finance; the role of family and politics on corporate performance. He is currently working as a Senior Researcher at Institute of Microfinance in Bangladesh. Professor Dr. M. Kabir Hassan is Professor of Finance in the Department of Economics and Finance in the University of New Orleans. He currently holds two endowed Chairs-Hibernia Professor of Economics and Finance, and Bank One Professor in Business- in the University of New Orleans. Professor Hassan is the winner of the 2016 Islamic Development Bank (IDB) Prize in Islamic Banking and Finance. Professor Hassan received his BA in Economics and Mathematics from Authors Bio 199 Gustavus Adolphus College, Minnesota, USA, and M.A. in Economics and Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA respectively. Professor Hassan is a financial economist with consulting, research and teaching experiences in development finance, money and capital markets, Islamic finance, corporate finance, investments, monetary economics, macroeconomics, Islamic banking and finance, and international trade and finance. Professor Hassan has done consulting work for the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, African Development Bank, Transparency International-Bangladesh (TIB), Islamic Development Bank, United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Government of Turkey and many private organizations. Professor Hassan has over 221 (52 in ISI, 181 in Scopus, 145 in ABDC and 85 in ABS) papers published in refereed academic journals such as in the Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Journal of Financial Stability, Review of Financial Economics, Emerging Markets Review, Accounting Research Journal, Journal of Housing Research, Journal of Business Ethics, Pacific Basin Finance Journal, Journal of Financial Services Research, Financial Review, Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Journal of Business, Finance and Accounting, Journal of Economics and Finance, Global Finance Journal, World Development, Thunderbird International Business Review, African Development Review and Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship. The number of publications would put Professor Hassan in the top 1% of peers who continue to publish one refereed article per year over a long period of time according to an article published in Journal of Finance. Professor Hassan has also been cited as one of the most prolific authors in finance literature in the last fifty years in a paper published in Journal of Finance Literature. His publication record puts him among the top 5.6% of all authors who published in the 26 leading finance journals. He is among the top 5% authors according to number of Journal Pages at RePAC/IDEAS. Professor Hassan is among the top three presenters in the Financial Management Annual Meetings during 1990-2013. He has won 25 Best Paper Awards from Academic Conference presentations. Professor Hassan has supervised 50 doctoral theses at the University of New Orleans and acted as External examiners for 40 dissertations from countries like Australia, New Zealand, USA, India, Bangladesh, Malaysia and Canada. Many of his students are now well placed in the academia (Department Chairs, Deans and Professors), government (Secretary, Under-Secretary and Central Bank Deputy Governor) and private sectors (CEO and CFO). Professor Hassan has evaluated promotion documents of many faculty members from the USA and abroad. Professor Hassan has numerous teaching awards for his outstanding teaching from the University of New Orleans and outside academic organizations. His teaching awards include Jamaica Executive MBA, JEMBA (2002, 2003, 2009), US EMBA (1999, 2000, 2003, 2007, 2015), Executive Masters in Health Care Management EMHCM (2002, 2003, 2015), Thompson-Reuters Outstanding Educator (2002, 2004, 2006), UNO College of Business Administration 200 Journal of Islamic Economics, Banking and Finance, Vol. 13, No. 4, October-December, 2017 Professor of the Year (2001), UNO Favored Professor (1998), University of Nebraska-Lincoln Graduate Assistant Award (1990). Professor Hassan is the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Islamic Economics, Banking and Finance (SCOPUS, ABDC and ABS) and International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management (SCOPUS, ABDC, ABS and ESCI). He has guest edited special Issues of Islamic finance for Thunderbird International Business Review (Wiley), International Journal of Business and Society (Scopus and ESCI), Review of Financial Economics (Elsevier), Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance (Elsevier), Singapore Economic Review (World-Scientific), International Review of Economics and Finance (Elsevier) and Review of International Business and Finance (Elsevier). Professor Hassan has also edited and published nine books. Kabir is the co-editor (with Mervyn K. Lewis) of Handbook of Islamic Banking, and Islamic Finance, The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics (Edward Elgar, 2007), Handbook on Islam and Economic Life (Edward Elgar, 2014), and co-editor (with Michael Mahlknecht) Islamic Capital Market: Products and Strategies (John Wiley and Sons, 2011). He is co-author of Islamic Entrepreneurship (Routledge UK, 2010). Dr. Hassan has written the first textbook (co-authored with Dr Kayed and Dr. Oseni) on Islamic Finance that was published by Pearson in 2013. His latest book Handbook of Empirical Research on Islam and Economic Life is published in December 2016 by Edward Elgar Publishing Company. A frequent traveler, Professor Hassan gives lectures and workshops in the US and abroad, and has presented over 343 research papers at professional conferences and has delivered 131 invited papers/seminars. Professor Hassan has been visiting Chair Professors in universities from Malaysia, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Indonesia. Professor Hassan has also provided academic leadership in various professional academic organizations such as President of Southwestern Society of Economists (SSE), President of Academy of International Business-US Southwest (AIB-US Southwest), President of Association for Economic and Development Association of Bangladesh (AEDSB) and President of Southwestern Finance Association (SWFA). DR Shamsher Mohamad is professor of finance at the International Centre for Education in Islamic Finance (INCEIF). He served Universiti Putra Malaysia since 1980 and was the Dean at the Faculty of Economics & Management, Universiti Putra Malaysia before joining INCEIF in March 2012. He received his MBA (Finance) from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium and PhD from University of Glasgow, Scotland. He taught graduate and post-graduate finance courses and has supervised 25 PhD students successfully both in conventional and Islamic finance. He has authored and co-authored several books (among others, Efficiency of the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange, Stock Pricing in Malaysia, Capital Markets Theory & Practice, Theory &Practice of Audit Committees in The Malaysian Corporate Culture, Introduction to Equity Options (in Bahasa Malaysia), and Capital Budgeting (Bahasa Malaysia) Investment Analysis (in Bahasa Malaysia)) and latest, co-edited a researched based Authors Bio 201 Institution and Money, Global Business and