Ahmet Suayb Gundogdu is a professor in Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University and a senior professional at the Islamic Development Bank where he has been employed since 2008. Before joining the bank, he was pursuing his PhD in Economics at Virginia Tech, USA. He holds a BA in International Trade from Bogazici University and an MA in International Development from the International University of Japan. He completed his PhD in Islamic Finance at Durham University, UK.

She was born in Manisa. After completing secondary school in Manisa Anatolian Imam Hatip High School, she graduated from Open Education High School. Orhan, who graduated from Bahçeşehir University, Department of Economics (with full scholarship) in her undergraduate education, completed her master’s degree in International and EU Relations at Linköping University in Sweden with a Swedish Institute scholarship. Then she received her PhD in Economics from the International University of Sarajevo. Her doctoral dissertation deals with the risk analysis of profit and loss sharing instruments in Islamic banking (participation banking). She has been working at Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University, Faculty of Business and Management Sciences since Fall 2015. The main areas of work Orhan, who received the title of associate professor in the field of banking and insurance, are comparative finance and banking, and the connection of Islamic finance and banking with the Islamic economy.

Ozan Maraşlı completed his BSc in Business Administration at İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University in 2014 and MA in Economics at Istanbul Technical University in 2018. Then he completed his Ph.D. in Islamic Economics and Finance at Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University in 2022. He is currently working in the department of Islamic Economics and Finance at Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University. His fields of interest are Islamic economic institutions, Islamic economic thought, and waqf.

He completed his undergraduate and graduate studies in economics at TOBB University of Economics and Technology (2017) and Boğaziçi University (2020), respectively. He served as a board member of the Kafkas Foundation between 2018 and 2022. He graduated from Abdullah Tivnikli ISAR Foundation's basic education program in Islamic sciences and Arabic in 2022. He is currently pursuing his PhD in Islamic Economics and Finance (English) at İstanbul Sabahattin Zaim University, where he is also working as a research assistant. His research interests include Islamic public finance and Islamic finance theory.