Under the Patronage of H.E Dr. Adib Mayaleh - Governor of Central Bank of Syria

The 5th Islamic Banks and Financial Institutions conference

was held  at Four Seasons Hotel-Damascus  on 15-16/3/2010

Under the Patronage of H.E Dr. Adib Mayaleh, Governor of Central Bank of Syria, the openning session of the '5th Islamic Banks and Financial Institutions Conference was opened on 15th, March 2010 at Four Seasons Hotel - Damascus.

      
22 Arab and foreign countries participated in the conference(Britain, Pakistan, Turkey, Switzerland, France, Cyprus, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Yemen, Sudan, Libya, Djibouti, Egypt, Kuwait, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, in addition to Syria)

    
More than 800 participants  attended the conference, among them were chairmen, executive managers of Islamic banks and financial institutions, and people from legislative, governmental, academic, political, diplomatic bodies. As well as businessmen, investors, industrials, merchants, experts in financial and economic sector and also members from the Governing Council and Chamber of commerce & industry & tourism.

Conference's Speakers:

   - H.E. Dr. Adib Mayaleh, Governor of Central bank of Syria
- Mr. Maher Abdul Hak, GM of Al-Salam for conferences (Organizer)
- Mr. Adnan Yousif, chairman, Union of Arab Banks
- H.E. Dr. Muhammad Al-Jasser, Governor of Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency
- H.E. Mr. Durmuş Yılmaz , Governor of central bank Turkey
- H. E. Shaykh Dr. Ahmad Badr Eddin Hassoun, Grand Mufti of the Syrian Arab Republic.
- Dr. Ezzedine Khoja, Secretary General of General Council for Islamic Banks and Financial Institutions ( Bahrain)
- Mr. Musa Shihadeh- Vice Chairman & General Manager of Jordan Islamic Bank ( Jordan )
- Mr. Adnan Yousif, CEO of Al Baraka Banking Group (Bahrain)
- Dr. Nabil Ghalleb- Islamic Financial Services Industry Department  -Islamic evelopment Bank Group ( KSA)
- Dr. Hatem Ghoumah - Islamic Financial Services Industry Department  -Islamic evelopment Bank Group ( KSA)
- Dr. Khawla Al Nobani - Partner  specialist in Islamic  economy BDO (Jordan)
- Mr. Abdel Maoula Chaar - Head of Research and Development, INTRODUCTION  ECOLE SUPERIEURE DES AFFAIRES (Lebanon)
- Dr. Esam Janahi ,Chairman–Independent, Gulf Finance House (Bahrain)

- Dr. Fehmy Ssddy, Founder and President, FS International partners SA
- Mr. Abdul Qader Dweik - General Manager of Syria International Islamic Bank
- Dr. Hussein Said, Assist. General Manger of Jordan Islamic Bank (Jordan)
- Dr. Mustafa Al Abdullah Al Kafary, Dean of the Faculty of Economics (Syria)
- Dr. Abdul Sattar Aboghedeh, member of the Advisory Council of Money and Credit - Central Bank of Syria (Syria)
- Dr. Wahbeh Al-Zuhaile, head of Shari’ a Supervisory commission Cham Bank (Syria)                                     
- Dr. Ala’ Al-deen Za’tari, Al- Fatwa Secretary– Ministry of Endowments (Syria)
- Mr. Saeb Nahas- President & CEO, Nahas Enterprises Group
- Mrs. Entisar Al Suwaidi – Vice Chairman & Managing Director of UPS (Kuwait)
- Mr. Ismail Ali, Group director Marketing , ITS (Kuwait)
- Eng. Iyad Zahra – General Manager, Insurance Supervision Panel (Syria)
- Mr. Ahmad Sabagh - General Manager, The Islamic Insurance Co. (Jordan)
- Mr. Firas El Azem, General Manager, Al-Aqeelah Takaful Insurance. (Syria)
- Mrs. Serap Gönülal - Senior Financial Sector Specialist, the World Bank (Turkey)

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