Sheikh Yusuf Talal DeLorenzo
Presenter
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 government agencies. 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) Bahrain, the International Shariah Research Academy (ISRA) Kuala Lumpur, the World Bank (Wash DC), the International Centre for Education in Islamic Finance (INCEIF) Malaysia, the Libraries of Stanford University, the Hamdan bin Muhammad University (Dubai), and others.
He presently serves as Chairman or member of several Shari’ah Advisory Boards, including the Dow Jones Islamic Market Indexes, Wafra/Intervest (NY & Kuwait), Oasis Asset Management (South Africa), Lakemore Partners (Dubai), Guidance Residential
(US), Sidra Capital (Saudi Arabia), Fifth Third Private Bank (Michigan, US), SAB Invest (the Saudi American Bank), Tadawul (Saudi Arabia), GFH Partners (Bahrain) and several other major global investment firms.
Shaykh Yusuf has assisted in the development of 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, a multi-
manager platform for alternative investments, and a Shariah solution for factoring. He was also a member of the team that designed a prime broker solution for a Shariah compliant short position (Barclays, NY and London). He is the author of a three volume
Compendium of fatawa produced by the Shariah boards of Islamic banks, and has contributed chapters and written and translated studies on a variety of financial products.
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.
Shaykh Yusuf was educated in the US, Egypt, and Pakistan. He is fluent, and has published academic work, in English, Arabic and Urdu
Presenter
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 government agencies. 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) Bahrain, the International Shariah Research Academy (ISRA) Kuala Lumpur, the World Bank (Wash DC), the International Centre for Education in Islamic Finance (INCEIF) Malaysia, the Libraries of Stanford University, the Hamdan bin Muhammad University (Dubai), and others.
He presently serves as Chairman or member of several Shari’ah Advisory Boards, including the Dow Jones Islamic Market Indexes, Wafra/Intervest (NY & Kuwait), Oasis Asset Management (South Africa), Lakemore Partners (Dubai), Guidance Residential
(US), Sidra Capital (Saudi Arabia), Fifth Third Private Bank (Michigan, US), SAB Invest (the Saudi American Bank), Tadawul (Saudi Arabia), GFH Partners (Bahrain) and several other major global investment firms.
Shaykh Yusuf has assisted in the development of 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, a multi-
manager platform for alternative investments, and a Shariah solution for factoring. He was also a member of the team that designed a prime broker solution for a Shariah compliant short position (Barclays, NY and London). He is the author of a three volume
Compendium of fatawa produced by the Shariah boards of Islamic banks, and has contributed chapters and written and translated studies on a variety of financial products.
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.
Shaykh Yusuf was educated in the US, Egypt, and Pakistan. He is fluent, and has published academic work, in English, Arabic and Urdu