Ladies and Gentlemen, Through this summit, where the meeting of regulators, practitioners, academics, potential investors and industry experts are possible, it is hoped that the potential of the Islamic banking and finance will be maximized to further improve the current swift development of the industry.
And I am particularly pleased to be launching our Fellowship Program here, at a university that is committed to producing the type of ground-breaking analysis we hope to encourage. Improving the policy framework When I first arrived at UBC in the fall of 1997, Canada was completing a decade of struggle to get our economic policies right.