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Eleventh Harvard University Forum on Islamic Finance
Takaful and Alternative Cooperative Finance: Challenges and Opportunities
April 25 - 27, 2014  Austin Hall, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts
 
PRE-FORUM  - Friday, April 25, 2014
 
2:00p.m. Registration
 
2:30 – 4:00p.m.  Parallel Session I:  Islamic Finance: The New Products  (Ames Courtroom)
CHAIR:  Rashid Alvi, Deputy Director, Islamic Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School
 
PAPERS:
Islamized Postal Savings in Jordan: A Model for State-Society Collaborative Risk-Sharing
Sarah A. Tobin, Postdoctoral Fellow, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany
 
What Does it Mean to be "Shari'a-Based"? Separation, Authenticity, Welfare
Ryan Calder, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Berkeley, California
 
Micro-Takaful in India: a Path towards Financial Inclusion and Sustainable Development
Mohammad Faisal, Assistant Professor, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
Asif Akhtar, Assistant Professor, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
Asad Rehman, Assistant Professor, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
M. Abdul Samad, Assistant Professor, Salman bin Abdulaziz University, Al Kharj, Saudi Arabia
 
Islamic Socio-Legal Institutions and Poverty Alleviation in Indonesia
Tanvir Ahmed Uddin, S.J.D. Candidate, University of Sydney, Australia
Maaz Rahman, Graduate Student, University of New South Wales, Australia
 
2:30 – 4:00p.m.  Parallel Session II: Islamic Finance: The New Perspective (Austin North)
CHAIR:  Elsayed Elsiefy, Professor, University of Alexandria, Egypt 
    Associate Professor, University of Hamad Bin Khalifa, Doha, State of Qatar
 
PAPERS: 
Commonalities and Differences between Halal Food Certifications and Islamic Finance Shari'a Boards
Cedomir Nestorovic, Professor, ESSEC Business School Asia Pacific, Singapore
 
The Effects of Law, Culture and Political Risk:  New Evidence from Mutual Fund Performance, Risk Taking and Fees
Meryem Mehri, Ph.D. Candidate, Dauphine University, Paris, France
Kauother Jaouber, Assistant Professor, Dauphine University, Paris, France
 
Maqasid Shari'a - Perspectives of Sharing Risk in a Risk Transferring Paradigm
Muhammad Nadeem Aslam, Head, Islamic Bank Meethaq, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
 
Unveiling IFRS Standardization Projects and the Position of Takaful Industry; a Literature Study
Murniati Mukhlisin, Ph.D Candidate, Glasgow University, United Kingdom
Mohammad Hudaib, Senior Lecturer, Glasgow University, United Kingdom
 
The Untold Story of Profit-and-Loss Sharing in Islamic Finance: An Economic Analysis of Islamic Contractual Liability
Youcef Maouchi, Ph.D. Candidate, CERGAM, Aix-Marseille University, Provence, France
 
4:00 to 4:15p.m.  BREAK
 
4:15 – 6:30p.m. Parallel Session III  Islamic Finance: The Emerging Themes    (Ames Courtroom)
 
CHAIR: Abdel-Rahman Yousri Ahmad, Professor, University of Alexandria, Egypt 
Professor, University of Hamad Bin Khalifa, Doha, Qatar
 
PAPERS:
Challenges and Opportunities in Developing Micro-Takaful in Muslim Majority Country:
A Case Study of Indonesia
Raditya Sukmana, Head, Islamic Economics Program, Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia
Sutan Emir Hidayat, Assistant Professor, University College of Bahrain, Kingdom of Bahrain
 
Strategic Opportunities for Islamic Finance: The French Legal Framework on Venture Capital and Cooperative Finance
Matri Dorsaf, Ph.D. Candidate, Sorbonne Law School, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France
Umar A Oseni, Assistant Professor, International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
 
Achieving Financial Inclusion of Muslim Minorities Through Alternative Shari'a-Based Cooperative Finance Models
Abdul Qadir Buhari, Chairman, B.S. Abdur Rahman University, Chennai, India
Blake Goud, Chief Compliance Officer, Marquam Capital, Portland, Oregon 
Saif Ahmed, Managing Partner, Infinity Consultants, Bangalore, India
 
On the Issues of Development of Islamic Finance in Emerging Markets: Case of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Golib A. Kholjigitov, Kazakh-British Technical University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Kenneth P. Charman, Professor, Kazakh-British Technical University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Lyubov Sartakov, Research Associate, Kazakh-British Technical University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
 
 
4:15 –6:30p.m. Parallel Session IV   Islamic Finance: The Emerging Markets  (Austin North)
CHAIR: Ibrahim Warde, Adjunct Professor, the Fletcher School, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts
 
PAPERS:
The Islamic Conception of an Institutional Framework for Islamic Financial Firms
Liza Mydin, Ph.D. Candidate, INCEIF, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Abbas Mirakhor, Distinguished Scholar and First Chair, INCEIF, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia           
 
The Islamic Cooperative: an Alternative to Islamic Banking?
Richard Gonsalves, Graduate Candidate, International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
 
Islamic Banking as a Solution for Solving Current Debt Problems
Behnam Gurbanzada, Director, Islamic banking, International Bank of Azerbaijan, Baku, Azerbaijan
Salman Alioglu, Economist 
 
The Risk Between Islamic Finance and Western Finance
Saad A Jloud, Doctoral Candidate, Law School - Brunel University, London, United Kingdom

MAIN FORUM - April 26-27, 2014 (Saturday and Sunday)
 
Saturday, April 26, 2014
 
8:00-9:00a.m. REGISTRATION AND RECEPTION (Austin Hall Lobby)
 
9:00-9:30a.m.  OPENING SESSION  (Ames Courtroom)
 
WELCOME REMARKS
 
FORUM KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Samuel L. Hayes
Jacob H. Schiff Chair in Investment Banking Emeritus, Harvard Business School
 
9:30-12:00p.m.  PLENARY SESSION 1:    Ames Courtroom
Risk Sharing: Possible Forms and Consequences                                     
 
CHAIR:  Volker Nienhaus, Visiting Professor, University of Reading, United Kingdom; and Adjunct Professor, INCEIF, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
 
DISCUSSION PAPERS                                                                                                                                                   
Risk Allocation and Management: Approaches and Implications for Islamic Finance
Habib Ahmed, Professor of Islamic Finance, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom
 
Shared Risk and Shared Responsibility
Seamus P. Finn, Director JPIC Ministry, Missionary Oblates, Washington, D.C.
 
PANELISTS:
Jaseem Ahmed, Secretary-General, Islamic Financial Services Board, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Khalid A. Al-Thani, Chairman, EZDAN Holdings, Doha, State of Qatar
Daud Vicary Abdullah, President, INCEIF, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Zeine Zeidane, Advisor, International Monetary Fund, Washington, D.C.
Joe W. Bradford, Shari'a Scholar & Senior Associate, Bank of New York Mellon, Houston, Texas
 
12:00-1:00p.m.      LUNCH       Austin Hall Lobby
1:00a.m.-3:30  PLENARY SESSION 2:           Ames Courtroom
Mutuals: Solidarity Concepts and Business Models
 
CHAIR: Jaseem Ahmed, Secretary-General, Islamic Financial Services Board, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
 
DISCUSSION PAPERS
Mutuality, Reciprocity, and Justice within the Context of a Unified Theory of Riba and Gharar
Mahmoud El-Gamal, Chair in Islamic Economics, Finance and Management, Rice University, Houston, Texas
 
Recent Experience of Demutualization: Lessons for Takaful
Shariq Nisar, Visiting Fellow, Islamic Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School
 
PANELISTS:
Ibrahim Warde, Adjunct Professor, the Fletcher School, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts
Khaled Al-Jasser, Chief Executive Officer, Bank Al Bilad, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Farmida Bi, Partner, Norton Rose, Fulbright LLP, London, United Kingdom                  
Taha Abdul-Basser, Managing Partner, Straightway Ethical Advisory LLC, New York, New York
 
3:30-4:00p.m.   BREAK   Austin Hall Lobby
4:00-6:30p.m. TWO PARALLEL SESSIONS                                       
 
PARALLEL SESSION A: Takaful: The New Paradigm for Financial Protection (Ames Courtroom)  
CHAIR: Savas Alpay, Director-General, Statistical Economic & Social Research Training Centre for Islamic Countries (SESRIC), Ankara, Turkey
 
PAPERS:
 
Fatwa and Its Role in Regulatory Capture and Arbitrage
Joe W. Bradford, Sharia Scholar & Senior Associate, Bank of New York Mellon, Houston, USA
 
The Takaful Impasse: A Practitioner's Plea
Ajmal Bhatty, Chief Executive Officer, Alinma Tokio Marine, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
 
Corporate Governance in Islamic Insurance (Takaful)
M. Kabir Hassan, Professor, New Orleans University, New Orleans, Louisiana
Mervyn K. Lewis, Emeritus Professor, University of Southern Australia, Australia
 
Do well by doing good: Corporate Sukuk as a Sustainable Investment for the Takaful Sector
Luc Van Liedekerke, BASF-Deloitte Chair on Sustainability,University of Leuven, Belgium
Reza Zain Jaufeerally, Researcher, University of Leuven, Belgium
 
A Proposed Marriage Between Endowments, Insurance, and Islamic Law; The Key Role of the Waqf Model of Takaful for the Future Growth of the Industry
Abdullah Nana, Shari'a Scholar, Berkeley, California
 
A Critical Shari'a Review of Takaful Structures: Towards a More Sound Model
Abdulazeem Abozaid, Associate Professor, Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies, Doha, State of Qatar
 
 
PARALLEL SESSION B: Austin North
Risk Sharing vs. Risk Shifting: Lessons from Recent Past
         
CHAIR: Habib Ahmed, Professor of Islamic Finance, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom
 
PAPERS:
 
Toward a Watershed in Takaful Dispute Resolution: From Litigation to Effective Dispute Management
Umar, A. Oseni, Assistant Professor, International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
 
Innovative Risk-Sharing and the Challenges of Product Development
Farmida Bi, Partner, Norton Rose, Fulbright LLP, London, United Kingdom                          
 
Islamic Credit Unions and Social Capital
Mohamed El-Komi, Assistant Professor, American University of Cairo, Egypt
Mahmoud El-Gamal, Chair in Islamic Economics, Finance and Management, Rice University, Houston, Texas
 
Revisiting Profit and Loss Sharing: The Forgotten Islamic Financing Alternative
Mohammed H. Khatkhatay, Chairman, TASIS, Mumbai, India
 
Risk Sharing a Potential for Takaful's Growth and Development in OIC Countries
Mahmoud Mohieldin, Managing Director, World Bank, Washington, D.C.
Serap Gonulal, Senior Financial Sector Specialist, World Bank, Washington, D.C.
Ahmed Rostom, Financial Sector Specialist, World Bank, Washington, D.C.
 
The Nature of Retakaful: Risk Sharing or Transferring Risks
Abu Umar Faruq Ahmad, Senior Researcher, ISRA, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Ismail Bin Mahbob, Former President/CEO, MNRB Retakaful Berhad, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Muhammad Ayub, Director of Research & Training, Riphah International University, Pakistan
 
6:45-8:45.m.    RECEPTION & BANQUET (By invitation only)
Milstein East, Wasserstein Hall, Harvard Law School               
 
BANQUET SPEECH  
Iqbal A. Khan, Chief Executive Officer, Fajr Capital Limited, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
 
Sunday, April 27, 2014
 
8:00-8:30a.m.   REGISTRATION AND RECEPTION  Austin Hall Lobby
 
8:30-10:45a.m. TWO PARALLEL SESSIONS
PARALLEL SESSION C: Mutuality & Cooperation: The Long-term Sustainable Model (Ames Courtroom)
CHAIR: Mehmet Asutay, Reader, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom
 
PAPERS:
Shari'a-compliant Crowd funding: an Efficient Framework for Start-ups and Small Enterprises development
Shehab Marzban, Co-founder and Managing Partner, Shekra Crowd Funding, Cairo, Egypt
Mehmet Asutay, Reader, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom
Adel Boseli, Co-founder and Managing Partner, Shekra Crowd Funding, Cairo, Egypt
 
Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Income Ratio and Risk-Sharing Structure
Seif El Din. I. Tag El-Din, Professor, Economics, Imam University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Hylmun Izhar, Economist, IRTI, Islamic Development Bank, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
 
The Takaful Box
Arslan Aïmen Bendimerad, Project Manager, Takaful department, AIDIMM, Paris, France
                                                         
Islamic Co-operative: A Route to Poverty Alleviation & Economic Development
Mian Farooq Haq, Sr. Joint Director, Islamic Banking, State Bank of Pakistan, Islamabad, Pakistan
Bushra Shafiq, Deputy Director, Islamic Banking, State Bank of Pakistan, Islamabad, Pakistan
 
New Horizons: the Potential for Shari'a-Compliant Cooperative and Mutual Financial Services
Sara E.B. Carmody, Senior Associate, King & Spalding LLP, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
 
8:30-10:45a.m.  PARALLEL SESSION D: Financial Inclusion and Social Finance  (Austin North)
CHAIR:  Luc Van Liedekerke, BASF-Deloitte Chair on Sustainability, Universities of Leuven and
      Professor, University of Antwer, Belgium
 
PAPERS:
Islamic Finance and Takaful: Tool to Rebuild the Social Fabric of Afghanistan
Alberto G. Brugnoni, Founder & Managing Partner, ASSAIF, Kabul, Afghanistan
 
Feasibility of Takaful as an Alternative Insurance in India
M. Akbar Ali Khan, Vice-Chancellor, Telangana University, Nizamabad, India
Sudershan Kuntluru, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, Kerala, India
Azhar Assankutty, Assistant Professor, Salman bin Abdulaziz University, Al Kharj, Saudi Arabia
 
Implication of Islamic Financial Services Act 2013 to Malaysian Takaful Industry: Appraising the Effects, Issues and Challenges Locally and Globally
Mohamad Akram Laldin, Associate Professor & Director, ISRA, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Jinnah, Muhammad Ali, Researcher, ISRA, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Furqani, Hafast, Researcher, ISRA, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
 
A Shari'a-Compliant High Watermark Protected Life Annuity in Family Takaful
Hiba Allam, General Counsel, FWU Global Takaful Solutions, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Commercial Credit Takaful
Muhammad Al Bashir M Al Amine, Head - Shari'ah Assurance Dept., Bank Alkhair, Kingdom of Bahrain
 
10:45a.m.  BREAK  Austin Hall Lobby
11:00-1:30p.m.
PLENARY SESSION 3: Takaful and Cooperation: Socio-economic Impact (Ames Courtroom)  
           
CHAIR: M. Shahab Ahmed, Professor of Islamic Studies, Harvard University
 
DISCUSSION PAPERS
Solidarity, Cooperation, and Mutuality in Takaful
Volker Nienhaus, Visiting Professor, University of Reading, United Kingdom; and 
Adjunct Professor, INCEIF, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
 
Reimagining Takaful: A New Model for Social Banking
Hussam Sultan, Manager, HSBC Amanah Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Abdur-Rahman Syed, Senior Associate, Fajar Capital Advisor, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
 
PANELISTS  
Mahmoud Mohieldin, Managing Director, World Bank, Washington, D.C.
Savas Alpay, Director-General, Statistical Economic & Social Research Training Centre for Islamic Countries, Ankara, Turkey
Waleed Hegazy, Managing Director, Hegazy & Associates/Crowell & Moring, Cairo, Egypt
Ashar Nazim, Partner, Ernst & Young, Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain
Suheil Laher, Doctoral Candidate, Harvard University
 
CONCLUDING REMARKS
1:30p.m.  LUNCH  Austin Hall Lobby
 
 
General Information
 
The Forum: The Pre-Forum is scheduled on Friday, April 25 at 2:30p.m and ends at 6:30p.m. The Main Forum begins with registration at 8:00a.m and the opening session is scheduled for 9:00a.m. The Forum ends on Sunday, April 27 at 3:00p.m.  Therefore, please plan your travel arrangements so that you've arrived in Cambridge, Massachusetts accordingly to attend Pre-Forum and Main Forum and then you may depart any time after 4:00p.m. on April 27. The nearest airport is Logan International Airport.  
 
Registration: If you have not done so already, please register through the IFP website: http://ifp.law.harvard.edu/conf_registration/registration
 
Location: The Forum is scheduled to be held at Austin Hall, Harvard Law School which is located on 1515 Massachusetts Ave. This map can help orient you with the neighboring buildings:  http://www.law.harvard.edu/about/map.html
 
Dress code: Please maintain business attire
 
Directions from Logan Airport to Harvard Square: Boston's Logan International Airport is located near downtown Boston. It is well connected to all major means of transportation –taxis, subways, buses and airport shuttle buses. We suggest that you take one of the forms of transportation explained below, or ask your hotel's concierge whether it has courtesy buses to/from the airport. For a map of the Harvard area, please see (http://map.harvard.edu/).
 
Taxi: You may take a taxi from Logan Airport to the Harvard Law School (1515 Massachusetts Avenue). The cost is approximately $45 and average travel time is between 30-35 minutes (depending on traffic).
 
Subway: To get to Harvard's main campus, take the Silver Line inbound to the Red Line at South Station. Take the Red Line outbound (train marked Alewife) to Harvard Square Station. It is possible to change lines without going to the ground level or paying another fare. The Silver Line stops outside every terminal at Logan Airport. Average travel time is between 45-60 minutes and the subway operates from 5:30 a.m. to 12:30 a.m.
Although the subway ride from the airport is cheap ($2), it involves a transfer of trains and might be uncomfortable if you are carrying a lot of baggage.
 
If you have problems or questions upon arrival at the airport, go to the Public Information Booths in any of the terminals at Logan Airport. You may want to view a map of the Harvard campus prior to your arrival. For maps of Boston's subway system, please visit their web site (http://www.mbta.com/schedules_and_maps/subway/). 
 
Directions to Austin Hall from Harvard Square: Austin Hall is located at the Harvard Law School approximately 5 minutes on foot from the Harvard Square. Walk north from the Harvard Square –this is away from the newsstands, office buildings, and shops on the Square and through the red brick buildings of Harvard Yard. Austin Hall is a maroon brick building located behind and to the left of the Science Center. This map will assist you in locating the building: http://www.map.harvard.edu/
 
Stay: Hotels in the Cambridge and Boston area are in high demand. The Forum does not designate a specific hotel for attendees to stay at; however, participants are encouraged to look into each for the best deal. The hotels closest to Harvard square are:
 
THE CHARLES HOTEL
SHERATON-COMMANDER HOTEL
THE HYATT REGENCY CAMBRIDGE
THE DOUBLETREE GUEST SUITES BOSTON
MARRIOTT RESIDENCE INN
BOSTON MARRIOTT CAMBRIDGE
 
Please note that IFP does not endorse any of these hotels or websites.
 
The Cambridge Office of Tourism http://www.cambridge-usa.org/ maintains a list of places to stay, as well as other useful information for visitors new to the area.
 
Refreshments and Lunch: Refreshments and self-serve buffet lunch will be served in Austin Hall.
 
Banquet: The Forum Banquet (by invitation only) will be held on Saturday April 26 at Wasserstein, Milstein East ABC, Harvard Law School from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. 
 
Proceedings: The books of previous forums will be available for purchase at the registration desk. Payment is accepted in U.S. dollars only (in cash, travellers' checks, or personal checks drawn from U.S. banks). Credit cards are not accepted.
 
Weather forecast: The weather forecast predicts a high of about 60 degrees Fahrenheit (10 degree Celsius) and a low of 35 degrees Fahrenheit (1.7 degree Celsius) for April 25-27. A light jacket and an umbrella would be appropriate.
 
S. Nazim Ali, Ph.D.
Director, Islamic Finance Project
 
Islamic Legal Studies Program
HARVARD LAW SCHOOL | Austin 108
1515 Massachusetts Ave.  Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
 
 




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