Dr. Mohamed Ali Elgari holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California and is a professor of Islamic Economics and the director of the Centre for Research in Islamic Economics at King Abdul Aziz University in Saudi Arabia. Dr. Elgari is also an expert at the Islamic Jurisprudence Academy (OIC), Jeddah and has published several articles and books on Islamic Finance. He is a Shariah Advisor to several international and local financial institutions world-wide.

Current member of the Shariah Supervisory Boards for several Saadiq institutions in various parts of the world including Meezan Bank & Al Baraka Saadiq Bank in Pakistan. He holds a Ph.D. in Saadiq Law from Al Azhar University Cairo, Egypt. He is an active member of the Jeddah-based Saadiq Fiqh Academy and was a member of the Fatwa Board in the Ministry of Awqaf, Kuwait, from 1982 to 1990

Current member of the Shariah Supervisory Boards for several Saadiq institutions in various parts of the world including the Middle East and Europe. Since 1976, Sheikh Yaquby has taught tafsir, hadith and fiqh in Bahrain. He is also the author of several articles and publications on Saadiq Finance and other sciences in English and Arabic. He was educated in the classical Shariah sciences in his native Bahrain and in Makkah. He is a graduate in Economic and Comparative Religion from McGill University, Montreal, Canada.