Ahmet Faruk Aysan is a professor and associate dean of research at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. He has been elected as a full Turkish Academy of Sciences (TUBA) member. He has been the Board Member and Monetary Policy Committee Member of the Central Bank of Turkiye and served as a consultant at various institutions such as the World Bank, the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, and Oxford Analytica.Syed Nazim Ali is Director of the Research Division and the Center for Islamic Economics and Finance at the College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University. Previously, he served as the founding director of the Islamic Finance Program. For three decades, Dr. Ali has led pioneering interdisciplinary research in Islamic finance, faith-based finance, and community development.Abdurahman Jemal Yesuf is an educator, researcher, and advocate of Islamic finance with over 15 years of academic, research, and industry experience in Ethiopia, Turkey, and Qatar. He has served as a consultant, trainer, and assistant professor of Islamic finance, as well as a research fellow at Qatar University and a post-doctoral researcher at Hamad Bin Khalifa University.Muhammad Fazlurrahman Syarif earned his Ph.D. in Islamic Finance and Economy at Hamad bin Khalifa University, supported by a full Qatar Foundation scholarship. Syarif's research interests include fintech, sentiment analysis, social media credit scoring, chatbots, crowdfunding, CBDCs, blockchain, halal economy, sukuk and e-learning. He began his career in Islamic Banking and Finance after completing his MBA in Islamic Banking and Finance at Bangor University and attending Durham Islamic Finance Summer School at Durham University in the United Kingdom. He has been awarded by Qatar Research, Development, and Innovation Council in the Rising Innovators Award at Web Summit Qatar.