Sh. Yusuf DeLorenzo
Sheikh Yusuf Talal DeLorenzo is a scholar of Islamic Transactional Law who works with international financial entities, including institutional and private investors, home finance providers, investment banks, index providers, asset managers and governments. He is the author of several publications on the subject of Islamic Finance, and has served in an advisory capacity to financial and academic institutions including: the Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI), the International Shariah Research Academy (ISRA) at the state bank of Malaysia, the International Centre for Education in Islamic Finance (INCEIF), the Libraries of Stanford University, the Hamdan bin Muhammad University (Dubai), and others.
In addition to serving as Chairman of several Shari’ah Advisory Boards, including the Dow Jones Islamic Market Indexes, Shaykh Yusuf assisted in the development of several innovative products and projects, including the Thomson Reuters Islamic Interbank Benchmark Rate, the first Sukuk using assets based in the United States, the first corporate Sukuk in Saudi Arabia, and a multi-manager platform for alternative investments. He was also a member of the team that designed a prime broker solution for a Shari’ah compliant short position.
Sheikh Yusuf’s career was featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal (Aug 9, 2007), and he has been mentioned in stories on Islamic Finance in The Financial Times, The New York Times, Fortune, Forbes, The US News and World Report, Newsweek, CNBC, Conde Nast Portfolio, The Middle East Banker and others, including TV and radio media.
Sheikh Yusuf is fluent, and has published academic work, in English, Arabic, Farsi and Urdu.
Sheikh Yusuf Talal DeLorenzo is a scholar of Islamic Transactional Law who works with international financial entities, including institutional and private investors, home finance providers, investment banks, index providers, asset managers and governments. He is the author of several publications on the subject of Islamic Finance, and has served in an advisory capacity to financial and academic institutions including: the Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI), the International Shariah Research Academy (ISRA) at the state bank of Malaysia, the International Centre for Education in Islamic Finance (INCEIF), the Libraries of Stanford University, the Hamdan bin Muhammad University (Dubai), and others.
In addition to serving as Chairman of several Shari’ah Advisory Boards, including the Dow Jones Islamic Market Indexes, Shaykh Yusuf assisted in the development of several innovative products and projects, including the Thomson Reuters Islamic Interbank Benchmark Rate, the first Sukuk using assets based in the United States, the first corporate Sukuk in Saudi Arabia, and a multi-manager platform for alternative investments. He was also a member of the team that designed a prime broker solution for a Shari’ah compliant short position.
Sheikh Yusuf’s career was featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal (Aug 9, 2007), and he has been mentioned in stories on Islamic Finance in The Financial Times, The New York Times, Fortune, Forbes, The US News and World Report, Newsweek, CNBC, Conde Nast Portfolio, The Middle East Banker and others, including TV and radio media.
Sheikh Yusuf is fluent, and has published academic work, in English, Arabic, Farsi and Urdu.