Alisher Djumanov has over 25 years of international experience in advisory, investment banking, venture capital, private equity and investment management. He is the managing partner of Bukhara Wealth, a Central Asia-based family office investment management firm focused on global investments across various asset classes. His work experience includes investment banking and advisory roles at Credit Suisse, Renaissance Capital, Booz Allen Hamilton and EY. Alisher has founded award-winning investment banks in several developing countries. He has advised governments, state-owned enterprises, sovereign wealth funds and multinational corporates on foreign direct investments across emerging and frontier markets in the Eurasia region. He has also made media appearances on Bloomberg, CNBC, BBC, Al Jazeera, Reuters, Dow Jones, Channel NewsAsia as well as AP, Financial Times, Foreign Policy, Euromoney, Global Finance and Institutional Investor. Alisher graduated from the Tashkent State Institute of Oriental Studies, received his Master of International Affairs degree from Columbia University and an MBA from Oxford University.

Anvar Nigmatov covers Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) (focusing on Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan and partially dealing with the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan) for the International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC). His first deal in Uzbekistan was to finance SMEs in partnership with local banks which was judged as Deal of the Year 2018 by the independent panel of experts of Islamic Finance news. At the ITFC, he is responsible for implementing the ITFC’s strategies for market penetration and deal generation in the CIS and managing client relationships first-hand and overseeing implementation of the upstream investment process. This includes identifying prospective clients, evaluating their associated risks and structuring deals for trade finance. He promotes Islamic trade finance in the region by organizing capacity-building workshops and trainings.

Prior to joining the ITFC in 2017, Anvar worked in the IsDB (multilateral development bank based in Saudi Arabia), United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (Switzerland), United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Switzerland), as well as other international development organizations dealing with developmental issues from the economic perspective.

Anvar obtained a Master’s degree from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (University of Geneva) in international affairs with a focus on investment and trade integration in 2008. His first degree was in management from Tashkent University of Information Technologies (Uzbekistan) in 2002. He completed a training program at the International Chamber of Commerce in global trade, and Wharton Business School’s program in finance for executives, and holds the Islamic Banking Certification of the General Council for Islamic Banks and Financial Institutions.

Mrs Madina Tukulova currently works as a Deputy Head of the AIFC Islamic Finance & Business Hub. She is responsible for the development of the Islamic finance industry in Astana International Financial Centre and the region. The current role involves the localisation of the AIFC participants (Islamic banks, Islamic finance, and takaful companies), the development of the Islamic Finance Industry, creating a regulatory framework including the development of the strategy on the development of Islamic finance.

Mrs Madina has professional experience in different positions in various departments of the Agency for the Regulation of the activities of the Regional Financial Center in Almaty, as well as the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan. She has over 10 years of experience with a specific focus to develop and promote the Islamic finance industry in Kazakhstan and Central Asia region.

Rustam Rahmatov is a product manager, CEO and founder of IMAN. He is an ex-investment banker with a wide range of buy-side and sell-side experience across Uzbekistan, Luxembourg and the US. He has worked at leading consulting firms and investment firms like EY, IFG and IFC (World Bank Group).

Prior to IMAN, Rustam was involved in advising and evaluating start-ups in industries such as fintech, auto loans, retail, e-commerce, manufacturing, renewable energy, real estate and many others both in the local market and abroad.

Rustam defines the key principles of IMAN’s strategy, which are developed based on the three core values: ethics, UX [user experience] excellence and disruptive technology. Rustam’s vision is to spread the ideas of Islamic finance globally, starting in Uzbekistan.

Rustam’s vision is spreading IMAN as a one-stop superapp for ethical investments and installments globally. He graduated from Oxford Brookes University and is an ACCA candidate.

Vladimir Malenko is a Managing Director of FairFin OÜ, an Islamic finance consultancy that specializes in Sukuk and Islamic microfinance. Prior to setting up FairFin, Vladimir worked as Islamic finance consultant at Sberbank, Russia’s largest bank, where he developed several innovative Shariah compliant instruments, including microfinance Tawarruq based of shares, Sukuk al Salam for grain, and Islamic stock market index. He is a native Russian speaker from Moscow, Russia. Dr. Malenko currently writes about Islamic private equity and venture capital for Islamic Finance News. He published “The Dubai IPO Guide” and “Russia: the next investment destination”. Mr. Malenko holds 3 advanced degrees – MBA and JD (from the US), and MD (from Russia). He studied Private Equity at the Singapore Management University and Amsterdam Institute of Finance.

Alisher Djumanov has over 25 years of international experience in advisory, investment banking, venture capital, private equity and investment management. He is the managing partner of Bukhara Wealth, a Central Asia-based family office investment management firm focused on global investments across various asset classes. His work experience includes investment banking and advisory roles at Credit Suisse, Renaissance Capital, Booz Allen Hamilton and EY. Alisher has founded award-winning investment banks in several developing countries. He has advised governments, state-owned enterprises, sovereign wealth funds and multinational corporates on foreign direct investments across emerging and frontier markets in the Eurasia region. He has also made media appearances on Bloomberg, CNBC, BBC, Al Jazeera, Reuters, Dow Jones, Channel NewsAsia as well as AP, Financial Times, Foreign Policy, Euromoney, Global Finance and Institutional Investor. Alisher graduated from the Tashkent State Institute of Oriental Studies, received his Master of International Affairs degree from Columbia University and an MBA from Oxford University.

Anvar Nigmatov covers Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) (focusing on Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan and partially dealing with the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan) for the International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC). His first deal in Uzbekistan was to finance SMEs in partnership with local banks which was judged as Deal of the Year 2018 by the independent panel of experts of Islamic Finance news. At the ITFC, he is responsible for implementing the ITFC’s strategies for market penetration and deal generation in the CIS and managing client relationships first-hand and overseeing implementation of the upstream investment process. This includes identifying prospective clients, evaluating their associated risks and structuring deals for trade finance. He promotes Islamic trade finance in the region by organizing capacity-building workshops and trainings.

Prior to joining the ITFC in 2017, Anvar worked in the IsDB (multilateral development bank based in Saudi Arabia), United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (Switzerland), United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Switzerland), as well as other international development organizations dealing with developmental issues from the economic perspective.

Anvar obtained a Master’s degree from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (University of Geneva) in international affairs with a focus on investment and trade integration in 2008. His first degree was in management from Tashkent University of Information Technologies (Uzbekistan) in 2002. He completed a training program at the International Chamber of Commerce in global trade, and Wharton Business School’s program in finance for executives, and holds the Islamic Banking Certification of the General Council for Islamic Banks and Financial Institutions.