Mr. Adel Al Mannai has been associated with IIRA since 2007 as an external member of the rating committee. He has a 23 year banking and finance career with a number of well established and renowned financial institutions. Before that he was associated with Investors Bank, Shamil Bank, Khaleej Finance and Investment Company, Mashreq Bank, ABN AMRO Bankm Arla Bank International and Al Bahrain Arab African Bank. He has an MBA from University of Glamorgan Wales U.K. and has attended numerous workshops and training programs during his professional career.

Mr. Javed Callea has 36 years of experience mostly in the financial institutions, in addition to his contribution to the services and infrastructure sectors in Pakistan. He has held the position of Chief Executive of a leasing company for 10 years. His core areas of expertise covers leasing, development financing, project management, investment & merchant banking, strategic investment management and Real Estate. He has also served as Member Finance of Water & Power Development Authority of Pakistan where he gained experience of social, economic and financial impact of infrastructure projects. During his career he has served on the Boards of several Banks, financial institutions, industrial concerns and as the nominee director of the Securities & Exchange Commission of Pakistan on the Board of Karachi Stock Exchange. He earned his MBA degree from the Institute of Business Administration in 1974, and has attended various seminars and conferences locally and internationally.

Mr. Sharidan Salleh is the Assistant Vice President of Ratings responsible for the ratings in the banking, insurance and oil & gas sectors, among others. He has 13 years of working experience in the local financial services industry in the areas of credit, investment research and private equity investment.Mr. Salleh began his career at RHB Bank Berhad where he worked in its Business Banking Group. He later joined local pension funds, the Employees Provident Fund and Retirement Fund Inc, in their investment research and investment operation departments. Sharidan graduated with BBA (Hons) Finance from Universiti Teknologi MARA and obtained his MBA (Applied Finance and Investment) from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.

Mr. Szalay is an international banking expert who has been active in Arab banking and financial business for more than 40 years. His last banking executive position (2006-2018) was Chief Risk and Credit Officer of Al Baraka Banking Group (ABG) – the largest internationally active Islamic bank, where among others he was responsible for group level risk management of ABG’s Tunisian, Algerian and Moroccan subsidiaries. He guided Al Baraka Bank Tunisia’s credit business and knows the Tunisian banking and corporate business including SOEs well. Prior to working with ABG in Bahrain, he was with the Saudi government-owned GIB in Bahrain and London in various senior executive positions. He has an MBA in Economics from the University of Budapest, Hungary.