Alieu Gibba, is a Gambian by nationality and a full-time lecturer in the School of Business & Public Administration, Department of Economics and Management Sciences, The University of The Gambia.

A born Muslim and currently blessed with two children, he has devoted much time in seeking of both Islamic and conventional knowledge. After the completion of his master’s degree in the field of Agricultural Economics, from Taiwan’s most prestigious and comprehensive university, National Taiwan University, he has devoted his time to Da’wah and presenting Islamic Lectures in The Gambia and beyond.

Altijani Hussin has a Masters degree in Economics from the University of North Carolina.
He is currently the Manager for Health Economics with the Supreme Council of Health, Ministry of Health in Qatar.

Edo Omercevic has gone through more than a decade of training in economics and finance. He started his tertiary education at the International Islamic University in Malaysia where he obtained his Bachelor in Economics (Hons) as well as his Master of Economics degree.

He is currently a Ph.D. in Economics candidate at the International University of Sarajevo. His interest and specialization lies in the field of money and banking, with special reference to complementary and alternative currencies and monetary systems.

Mr Omercevic is presently a lecturer at the American University in Bosnia and Herzegovina and he is a co-founder of the Center for Advancement of Free Enterprise (Centar za poslovnu afirmaciju) that is promoting free market ideas in the region

Born in Bangladesh,Fatema Zohora completed her Bachelor in Business Administration from North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Then she migrated to USA for her higher education and completed Master’s degree in Finance in 2008 and earned an MBA in 2010 from Texas A & M University-Commerce. After completing her Master’s she came back to Bangladesh and became a Lecturer in the Business School at North South University. She taught entry level Management and Finance courses while there. After working about a year in Bangladesh she migrated to Canada with her husband in 2011. She worked as a Contractual Financial Analyst in Hudson Bay, Toronto at Canadian Tire, Toronto for few months.

Currently she prefers teaching as her ultimate career and is working towards Canadian Colleges. In the near future her plan is to pursue a PhD in Business Administration and to become a Business Professor, and while gaining more knowledge about Islam. She hopes to engage in dawah and fulfill charity work in the name of Islam

Hamar Jawo holds an MBA in Banking and Finance from CESAG, Dakar, Senegal. Currently, he is a senior bank officer for the Arab Gambian Islamic Bank, Treasury Department.

Kashfia Nehrin holds an MA in Advance Economics from the International Islamic University of Malaysia and an MA in Economics from the University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. She has an extensive teaching experience as a lecturer of Business and Economics at various academic institutions in Malaysia and Saudi Arabia. She was a faculty member of the Business Administration Department at Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. She is also an expert in teaching Economics and Business for GCE (General Certificate of Education) and IGCSE (International General Certificate of Secondary Education) & AS/A (Advance Subsidiary and Advance) Level. Kashfia received various awards for her teaching excellence. She attended many local and international conferences on business and Islamic economics

Mr. Mansoor Danish is the Acting-Head of the Department for the BBA Program with over 6 years of teaching experience with the International Open University.

Mr. Danish is also an experienced baking and finance professional having exceptional proficiency in the Islamic Banking sphere. He worked with the HSBC Bank, India for nearly 6 years and then worked for nearly 2 years with Idafa Investments (India)- a sub-broking firm.

After working for over 8 years, he decided to pursue his post-graduate studies in Business Management. His specialisation was in Finance and his dissertation was on Similarities between Islamic Banks and Conventional Banks (using technical analysis). He completed this under the supervision of (Late) Dr Prithviraj Banerjee.

Mr. Danish also works as a Independent Financial Consultant assisting his clients to plan their financial goals. He is also a trained public speaker and has conducted several workshops and programs in the field of Financial Management, Islamic Finance, Sales & Marketing, Communication, Public Speaking and other self-development topics.

Hamida Mubasshera, a Bangladeshi by born has completed her Masters degree in Finance (majoring in Islamic finance) in 2014 from International Islamic University Malaysia. Before that she did her Bachelor in Business Administration (majoring in finance) from Institute of Business Administration (IBA), University of Dhaka. Currently she is puersuing her Phd in the department of Economics in Texas Tech University, USA.

During her stay at Malaysia Hamida worked with several professors of IIUM as Teaching assistant and Research assistant. She has co-authored multiple papers with them which have been published in peer reviewed journals. She has also attended and presented papers in international conferences on Islamic finance. Within Islamic finance, her field of specialization is monetary economics from Islamic perspective. She intends to work on feasibility of complementary currencies as her Master research paper was on the shariah compliant model of a conventional complementary currency, namely commercial credit circuit (C3).

Salimah Musharrif holds an MA in Economics and a BCom from the DHA College; CIE Professional Development Course for Economics certificate; and a Diploma on Teachers’ Training Course at the Notredame Institute of Education (NDIE). Sister Salimah conducted various teachers’ training programs on academic and computer skills; and participated in the training program of the Institute of Banking, Finance and Industry (IBFI), a project of the Resource Development Foundation (R.D.F.). Sister Salimah has an extensive public and private teaching experience of various subjects such Commerce, Economics, Business Studies, Management, Statistics and Finance.

Sawaneh Banna holds an MA in International Business from the The Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft, Berlin, Germany; and a B.Sc. in Management and Marketing from the University of The Gambia, The Gambia.

Br. Sawaneh holds many certificates from various trainings:

• Training on the Empirics of Trade and Trade Policy;
• Training on Project Planning, Management & Evaluation;
• Training on Gender-Responsive Economic Policy Management;
• Training of Trainers on Training Skills in Management and Public Administration;
• Training on Instructional Design for Open, Distance & E-Learning;
• Management Consultancy and Research Skills Training;
• Adapted Computer Use and Dolphin Pen Training; and
• Public Administration, Leadership and Management Training.

He has an extensive lecturing, teaching, translating, marketing, consultancy, managerial and supervisory experience. Br. Sawaneh participated in policy design and formulation of the government of The Gambia. He also co-authored a published book “The Report on NGOs’ Performance Standards (volume 1)”. He is a member of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), the United Nations African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (UNIDEP), and the UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) Virtual Institute. Br. Sawaneh is currently lecturing at the Department of Economic and Management Science, University of The Gambia.