Peter Casey is a consultant to the Islamic Financial Services Board (IFSB), and a member of the Legislative Committee of the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA). He is also a member of the International Advisory Board of the Emirates Securities and Commodities Authority, and a consultant to the General Council for Islamic Banks and Financial Institutions. He was previously the DFSA’s Senior Director, Policy and Strategy, and Head of Islamic Finance. Peter has been involved in standards development in Islamic finance through membership of the IFSB Technical Committee and several IFSB Working Groups, including those on Special Issues in Capital Adequacy, Governance of Takaful Operations, and Solvency Requirements for Takaful Operators. He has been a consultant to the IFSB on several projects, including its standards on supervisory review in Islamic banking, Core Principles for Islamic Finance (Banking Sector), Retakaful, and disclosure in capital markets, and is currently involved in projects on Core Principles for the capital markets sector, and supervisory review in Takaful. He participated in the joint IFSB-IAIS working group on Takaful, and in the IOSCO working group which analysed the application of IOSCO’s Objectives and Principles of Securities Regulation to Islamic products. He has undertaken consultancy work for, among others, the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. Before joining the DFSA in 2002, Peter was Head of the Non-Life Insurance Department of the UK Financial Services Authority. Before that, he held senior regulatory posts in the Treasury, the Department of Trade and Industry and the Office of Fair Trading.  He was educated at Cambridge University.