Brian Kettell has a wealth of experience in the area of Islamic banking and finance. He worked for several years for the Arab Banking Corporate and then as an Economic Advisor for the Central Bank of Bahrain, where he had numerous Islamic banking responsibilities.

Subsequently, Brian taught courses on Islamic banking and finance at a range of financial institutions including the World Bank, National Commercial Bank (Saudi Arabia), Global Investment House (Kuwait), Noor Islamic Bank (UAE), the UK Treasury, the Central Bank of Iran, the Central Bank of Syria, the Securities Investment Institute, the Institute for Financial Services, the US Treasury and Scotland Yard

Brian's vast academic expertise in Islamic banking and finance is highlighted by his role as Joint Editor of the Islamic Finance Qualification Handbook and his past teaching work at a number of top financial universities worldwide including the London School of Economics, the City University of Hong Kong and London Metropolitan University Business School.

Brian's impressive list of publications include over 100 articles in journals, business magazines and the financial press including Islamic Business and Finance, Islamic Banking and Finance, the Central Banking Journal, Euromoney, the Securities Journal and the International Currency Review. He has also published 16 books on banking and financial markets and over 70 case studies.

These are:

• Islamic Capital Markets. (Contact the Author for purchase details)
• Introduction to Islamic Banking and Finance. (Contact the Author for purchase details)
• Islamic Structured Finance- A Guide to Sukuk. (Contact the Author for purchase details)
• Islamic Banking and Finance in the Kingdom of Bahrain (Bahrain Monetary Agency)
• Financial Economics (FT-Prentice Hall)
• Economics for Financial Markets (Butterworth-Heinemann)
• What Drives Currency Markets (FT-Prentice Hall)
• What Drives Financial Markets (FT-Prentice Hall)
• The Valuation of Internet Stocks (Butterworth-Heinemann)
• The Federal Reserve System (FT-Prentice Hall)
• The Finance of International Business (Graham and Trotman)
• Businessman's Guide to the Foreign Exchange Market (Graham and Trotman)
• The International Debt Game (Graham and Trotman)
• Gold - Its role in the International Financial System
• Monetary Economics
• The Foreign Exchange Handbook

His latest book Islamic Capital Markets is the first ever textbook on this subject and was published shortly after Introduction to Islamic Banking and Finance. A review of the the latter book can be found below.

" Brian Kettell deserves the thanks of every practitioner of Islamic Finance for he has brought his years of experience, in conventional finance and Islamic finance, to help explain the fundamental points of convergence and divergence between Shariah compliant finance and mainstream, interest-based finance. In doing so, the book is direct and concise, with the result that readers will easily comprehend the whys and the wherefores of this somewhat different, challenging, and ultimately rewarding approach to finance. Shaykh Yusuf Talal DeLorenzo. AAOIFI Sharia'a Board ".