💡 Meet our Speakers: Michael Gassner lives and works in Geneva. He works full-time as Head of Islamic Finance at a Swiss private bank. A member of the Sharia Board of Bosna Bank International in Sarajevo, he is also a member of the advisory board of World Congress of Muslim Philanthropists (WCMP), which conducts the Global Donors Forum (GDF) to mobilize financial and intellectual resources for creating socioeconomic value to benefit people beyond all divides. After training in a German bank, he learned Arabic while studying business administration with a focus on finance, marketing and economic history. He spent his semester abroad in Damascus. After starting his career in the ‘New Economy’, he worked as a financial advisor and specialized in Islamic finance. He immigrated to Switzerland from Jeddah, where he oversaw Islamic product development at Bank Al Jazira. Médecins Sans Frontières Suisse / Ärzte ohne Grenzen Schweiz is co-organising an important Islamic Blended Finance workshop in collaboration with the Global Donors Forum, where it will highlight its Islamic giving offer and efforts. Faith-inspired philanthropy is an important component of giving we are happy to honour! Elnur Salihovic | Michael Gassner | Mario Stephan
