Talal Yassine is an experienced business leader, entrepreneur and academic. 

Currently, Talal serves as Managing Director of Crescent Wealth, Non-Executive Director of Crescent Finance, Media Diversity Australia and as a Member of the Western Sydney University Foundation Council Board. Talal also serves as Chairman of First Quay Capital and LandCorp Australia.

Previously, Talal has served on the Board of Australia Post, Sydney Ports, Macquarie University and the Western Sydney Area Health Service and the Chairman of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade; Council of Australia Arab Relations.

Talal holds a Master of Laws and a Master of Business Administration which was focused on international business strategy. In November 2012, Talal was also appointed as a Vice Chancellor’s Professorial Fellow within the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University and in 2014 was appointed Adjunct Professor within the School of Business, Western Sydney University.

On Australia Day 2010, Talal was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for his service to business and to the community through a range of education, health and multicultural organisations.

Currently leads the Capital Markets practice for JLL MENA, with over $2bn in completed transactions in recent years. Prior to joining JLL, Nida headed Advisory and Asset Management for Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector in Saudi Arabia, as well as several regional and global investment banks over the last 20 years of her career. She has successfully raised over $150bn for private and public sector clients in the global capital markets in the form of Sukuk, bonds and structured finance transactions.

Nida holds an MSc in International Securities Investment & Banking from Henley Business School Reading UK, and achieved a first class BSc (Hons) Physics with Space Science from UCL, UK.

Mustafa Adil is the Head of Islamic Finance for Refinitiv, a London Stock Exchange business. He is responsible for leading the Islamic finance and Islamic markets business for the organization, providing knowledge solutions and bespoke services to support the continued growth and increasing depth of the Islamic finance industry. He works in collaboration with government entities, multilateral organizations and leading financial institutions to support them in fulfilling their aspirations and executing their strategies in the Islamic markets space. These include the delivery of content solutions, research, consulting services and market engagement. He also spearheads the development of new initiatives or services that meet the increasingly sophisticated needs of the industry across markets.

Prior to joining Refinitiv, Mustafa was a leading consultant in the Islamic Financial Services team at Ernst & Young, providing advisory services to some of the leading Islamic financial institutions in the GCC and globally. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England & Wales and holds a Bachelors degree in Mathematics from Imperial College in London.