Join us for a talk this Sunday, March 19th for a talk on the of Marātib al-Khayr: The Degrees of the Good with Professor Mohamad Hammour, faculty member at Usul Academy. Mohamad Hammour is an academic economist as well as a practitioner of participation finance. Dr. Hammour has served as: a member of the economics faculty at Columbia University and of the visiting faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States; a Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in France; a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research in the United Kingdom; and a consultant to the World Bank. He is the Founder and Chairman of Guidance Financial Group, an international financial services company dedicated to Shariah-compliant finance and investment. Dr. Hammour holds a B.A. in Philosophy and an M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.