Glenn is an American who was educated at Oxford University where he was a member of The Queen’s College and obtained an honors BA and an MA in Oriental Studies with an emphasis in Islamic History and Arabic language. He resided in the Middle East for 27 years working with Arab owned businesses first with the Palestinian owned auditing firm Saba & Co then for the Libyan controlled Arab banking Corporation and for twenty years for the Sa’udi merchant family Ahmad Hamad Algosaibi & Brothers Co. giving him a unique and unparalleled view into both the business, cultural and political aspects of this challenging region. He is one of the world’s foremost experts in Islamic commercial law and has lectured on Middle Eastern affairs at Oxford and Harvard Universities. Glenn has published a number of articles on Islamic Finance in various academic journals and has also presented papers on the Middle East at the Association for Studies in Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) conferences in Washington DC. In the course of his time in the region Glenn developed extensive contacts with members of the Islamic religious establishment and has unparalleled insights into the resurgence of political Islam in the late 20th and early 21st Century. He was at the center of the largest private financial default in Middle Eastern history and suffered from an arbitrary and unwarranted detention at the hands of the Bahraini authorities which culminated in his Argo like exfiltration from Bahrain. He passed the uniform CPA examination on his first attempt and worked in public accounting for five years. He developed specialized knowledge of accounting in a number of areas such as real estate, oil and gas, not for profit and governmental entities. He subsequently worked in Investment Banking for thirty years where he handled work out situations, mergers and acquisitions, public offerings and extensive capital market activities. During his twenty years working for the Algosaibi family office he raised approximately $5 billion in working capital for the family. He also specialized in Islamic Finance and managed a further $7 billion in assets structured in accordance with Shariah. He created the first public mutual fund in the United Kingdom run in accordance with Shariah principles. Since 2010 Glenn has acted as a financial consultant on a number of projects. Since 2017 he has been advising MG Sugars Lanka Pvt. Ltd. on various aspects in connection with the financing of a new sugar factory at Kanthale in Sri Lanka. Currently he is based in London and is also advising a media and entertainment group on a number of projects ranging from film finance to online gaming, food services, wellness products and new technology. Glenn is also a successful producer and contributor to the arts and has extensive executive producer credits on films such as The Messenger, New York I Love You, The Lucky Ones, The Tournament, The Ministers, Flashbacks of A Fool as well as the beautifully crafted noir musical Dark Streets which features original blues music performed by such artists as Etta James, Solomon Burke, Natalie Cole, Aaron Neville, Chaka Khan, Dr. John and Richie Sambora. To order this best of the blues go to amazon.com. Glenn’s musical play The City Club was produced at the Edinburgh fringe in 2006 and at the Minetta Lane theatre in New York in 2012. A film version of it was produced and distributed in 2009 under the title Dark Streets.