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Professor Asma Salman is a blockchain developer and a professor of Finance and currently serves as the Dean for the College of Business Administration at the American University in the Emirates, UAE. An honorary global advisor at Global Academy of Finance & Management, USA, she completed her M.B.A. in Finance & Accounting and earned a Ph.D. in Finance from Harbin Institute of Technology, China. Her research credentials include a one-year residency at the Brunel Business School at Brunel University, UK. Prof. Asma has been actively engaged in scientific research and has published impactful articles in International Journals & Conferences. Handling editor and board member at Journals of high repute and international bibliography, one of her recent articles on "Bitcoin and Blockchain" has gained wide visibility across the world.





Prof. Assem Tharwat earned his master's degree in mathematical statistics from Cairo University, Egypt, and his Ph.D. in Operations Research from Charles University, Czech Republic. He has more than 35 years of academic experience in different universities in both the public and private sectors in Egypt and in UAE. He taught courses across Operations Research and Management Sciences and supervised more than forty Ph.D. and M.Sc. theses during the past 20 years and has published more than 80 articles in international/national journals and conferences. Prof. Assem served as the dean between 2011 and 2013 in CIC, Egypt, and between 2017 and 2019 and from 2020 till 2021 at the College of Business Administration at the American University in the Emirates, UAE. He currently serves as the Vice President for Research at AUE.