IFN Kuwait Dialogue 2016

Date: 24^th October 2016

Venue: Four Points by Sheraton, Kuwait City

Advisory Board
- Abdulkader Thomas — CEO, SHAPE Financial
  
  Ahmed Fayed AlGebali — Director, Islamic Finance, Islamic Development Bank (IDB)
  
  Alex Saleh — Partner and Head of Kuwait Office, Al Tamimi & Company
  
  Emad Al Monayea — Board Director and CEO, Kuwait Finance House Investment
  
  Issam Al Tawari — Founder and Managing Director, Newbury Economic Consulting
  
  Jamal Hamad Al-Barrak — Executive General Manager of Investments, Kuwait International Bank
  
  Mohammad Al-Qahtany — Managing Director, Abwab Capital
  
  Saleh Al-Ateeqi — Chief Executive Officer, Boubyan Capital
  
  Tariq Al-Rifai — CEO, Quorum Center for Strategic Studies, UK
Speakers
Sponsors & Partners
Post Event Report

Kuwait is an interesting and developing Islamic finance market and 2016 will see the first IFN Kuwait Dialogue, building on the success of IFN Kuwait Forum and with the support of both local regulators and international participants to explore and encourage Shariah compliant investment opportunities into the country.

The Dialogue

IFN Dialogues offer an independent and impartial platform for the identification and resolution of specific issues, challenges and opportunities facing the industry through a high-level discussion designed to determine the potential development of a particular country, sector or asset class.

Chaired by IFN’s Editor this thought-provoking exclusive session brings together the industry’s elite with extensive knowledge of that particular market and industry regulators.

The Kuwait Dialogue will consist of local regulators and industry practitioners and international key players with a solid understanding of the local market but with an outsider point of view

Participants

Abdulkader Thomas — CEO, SHAPE Financial
Alex Saleh — Partner and Head of Kuwait Office, Al Tamimi & Company
Hossam Abdullah - Legal Counsel & Managing Partner, Al-Hossam Legal – Adlouni & Partners
Issam Al Tawari — Founder and Managing Director, Newbury Economic Consulting
Mohammad Al-Qahtany — Managing Director, Abwab Capital
Mubarak Al-Refaei — Director of Corporate Finance & Governance, Capital Markets Authority
Norashikin Mohd Kassim — CEO, CIMB Principal Islamic Asset Management, Malaysia
Qasim Aslam — Partner, Dentons, the UAE
Tariq Al-Rifai — Chief Executive, Quorum Center for Strategic Studies, UK



09:30 - 12:30	The IFN Kuwait Dialogue This two and a half-hour closed-door round-table styled session, is for a select group of Kuwait’s leading Islamic finance industry’s practitioners and regulators, to openly discuss the benefits and concerns facing the Shariah compliant financing and investment market today.
	Islamic finance industry’s practitioners and regulators, to openly discuss the benefits and concerns facing the Shariah compliant financing and investment market today.

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