Dr. Nader Naifer is a Professor of Finance at the Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He teaches Corporate Valuations, Advances Topics in Finance, Real Estate Finance & Investment, Financial Management, and Corporate Finance, among others. In addition, his research focuses on energy markets, Islamic finance, credit derivatives, green finance, fintech, and financial stability.Dr. Ahmed Elsayed is Associate Professor in Economics at Durham Business School (UK). He teaches Economic Theory, Macroeconomics, Quantitative Methods, Financial Markets and Institutions and Financial Econometrics. His main research interests are in the areas of contagion and financial crises, middle east and emerging financial markets, financial integration, islamic finance, energy economics, information transmission, and volatility modelling. In addition, Ahmed is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a member of Institute for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies.