Harris Irfan

An investment banker with over two decades experience in London and the Middle East, Harris Irfan was a co-founder of Deutsche Bank's world leading Islamic finance team where he led some of the most ground-breaking deals in the industry, and became CEO of its Islamic finance subsidiary. He was subsequently appointed global head of Islamic finance at Barclays and then head of investment banking at Rasmala group. Harris is widely recognized as one of the world's leading authorities on Islamic finance and is the author of the critically acclaimed best-seller, Heaven's Bankers: Inside the Hidden World of Islamic Finance. He writes on Islamic finance for various industry journals and the international press, including The Guardian, Foreign Affairs and Forbes, and appears frequently in the media, including the BBC, CNN, Sky News, Bloomberg and the Financial Times. Http://www.cordobacap.co.uk/about.html