Mehmet Asutay is a Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Political Economy & Finance at the Department of Finance, Durham University Business School; the Director of the Durham Centre for Islamic Economics and Finance, and the programme director for the MSc Islamic Finance programme.

Mehmet’s teaching, research, publications, and research supervision focus on Islamic moral economy/Islamic economics, Islamic political economy, Islamic finance and banking, Islamic governance and management, Islamic social welfare institutions, and Middle Eastern political economies. 

His articles on his research interests have appeared in various international academic journals and professional magazines. He has also published manuscripts and edited books on aspects of Islamic moral economy and Islamic finance. 

Mehmet has served as a consultant to COMCEC (a part of the OIC), CIBAFI, and UNDP-IICPSD on various projects, and he was also a member of the Board of Directors of Albaraka Turk Participation Bank from 2018 to 2020. He was the Honorary Treasurer of BRISMES (British Society for Middle Eastern Studies) and its journal British Journal of Middle East Studies from 2009 to 2019.

Mehmet is the editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Islam and Society, the International Journal of Islamic Economics and Finance Studies, and the Review of Islamic Economics. He is also a Board Member of the International Association for Islamic Economics.

Mehmet is the 2024 Laureate of IsDB (Islamic Development Bank) Prize for Impactful Achievement in Islamic Economics for recognition of his novel work on Islamic moral economy and the articulation of Islamic finance to be supportive of sustainable development and the welfare of human beings.

Durham University Profile: https://www.durham.ac.uk/business/our-people/mehmet-asutay/

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=e6ZHO-cAAAAJ&hl=en

Email: mehmet.asutay@durham.ac.uk

Prof. NACİ TOLGA SARUÇ
Personal Information
Email: naci.saruc@istanbul.edu.tr
Web: https://avesis.istanbul.edu.tr/naci.saruc
Address: İstanbul Üniversitesi Merkez Kampüsü 34452 Beyazıt/Fatih-İstanbul Tel: 0 (212) 440 00 00
International Researcher IDs
ScholarID: D7nVXw4AAAAJ
ORCID: 0000-0003-0716-3040
Publons / Web Of Science ResearcherID: AAA-7387-2020
Yoksis Researcher ID: 118804
Education
Doctorate, University of Leicester, Social Sciences, Economics, United Kingdom 1995 - 2001
Postgraduate, University of Leicester, The Faculty Of Social Sciences, Economics, United Kingdom 1994 - 1995
Undergraduate, Dokuz Eylul University, Faculty Of Economıcs And Admınıstratıve Scıences, Department Of Fınance, Turkey 1987 - 1992
Foreign Languages
English, C1 Advanced
Dissertations
Doctorate, The determinants of tax evasion: Experiments with Turkish subjects , University Of Leicester, Social Sciences, Economics, 2001
Postgraduate, Privatisation of Water Industry in England and Wales, University of Leicester, Social Science Faculty, Economics, 1995 

Junus Ganiev received his M.S. and PhD degree in Economics from the Kyrgyz - Turkish Manas University. He carried out his master’s thesis on inflation dynamics and doctoral thesis on corruption. He conducts research on monetary policy, international economic relations, economic growth and development. He has attended international conferences in many countries. He has journal articles, book chapters, books, conference papers. He is a full-time Associate Professor at Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University, Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Management. ORCID: 0000-0001-8859-5464 (Djal, Campus of Chyngyz Aitmatov, Bishkek, 720038, Kyrgyzstan, +996772 331193, junus.ganiev@manas.edu.kg)

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