Dr Mohamed Ali Elgari holds a PhD in Economics from the University of California. He is a Professor of Islamic Economics at King Abdul Aziz University, and serves as an expert at the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and the Islamic World League. Dr Elgari is a member of Shari`a Boards of various high-profile Islamic finance institutions and Takaful companies, including the Dow Jones International Islamic Fund Market. He also sits on the Shari`a Board of the Accounting and Auditing Organisation for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI) and is an Advisory Board member of the Harvard Series on Islamic Law.