Shariah-Compliant Finance Advisor Picked by Obama as White House Fellow

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On Tuesday, President Obama announced the appointment of this year's "White House Fellows," a prestigious program in which outstanding Americans are chosen to work in the White House and receive "first hand, high-level experience with the workings of the Federal government." According to a White House Press release, one of this year's Fellows is a young lawyer named Samar Ali:

Samar Ali is an Associate with the firm Hogan Lovells US LLP. She is responsible for counseling clients on mergers & acquisitions, cross-border transactions, Shari'a compliant transactions, project finance, and international business matters.

Left out of the press release is that she also previously worked as an intern and received training at the Islamic International Arab Bank; according to her staff bio at the Hogan Lovells law firm,

Samar's experience includes advising a Middle Eastern university in the potential establishment of a Foreign Aid Conventional and Shari'ah Compliant Student Loan Program. … Before joining Hogan & Hartson, Samar worked as a summer associate for the firm and as a legal intern for the Islamic International Arab Bank.

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