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Stella Cox
Managing Director, DDCAP
(Confirmed)
Stella Cox is Managing Director of DDCAP and its subsidiaries DD&Co Limited and DDGI Limited.
Previously she was a Director of Dresdner Kleinwort Benson Limited ("KB") where she had responsibility for Middle Eastern institutional
relationships and product development for KB's Islamic clients. Stella's team managed assets aggregating over US$2bn and extended over
US$250mn of finance to support the trade and commodity purchase requirements of their clients.
Whilst with the Bank, Stella was involved in structuring The Islamic Fund, the first Sharia'a compliant global equity product, launched in
1986. The Fund was subsequently distributed by Gulf Bank, Kuwait and National Bank of Bahrain. Prior to leaving KB, Stella was a Director
of the Al Meezan Commodity Fund plc, a joint venture initiative between KB and Islamic Investment Company of the Gulf (Bahrain), that
invested in base metals traded on the London Metal Exchange.
Stella and her team are now responsible for DDCAP's Islamic and Middle Eastern clients and market activities as well as those of its
shareholders. DDCAP represents a number of privately owned Middle Eastern organisations in their Islamic financing and investment
activity and its wholly owned subsidiary, DD&Co, is a leading provider of asset facilitation services to the Islamic wholesale
markets. Through DDGI, the Firm has also invested, for its own account, in a number of Islamic financial services initiatives. Stella
represents the Group, where appropriate, at Board level. Independently, she is a non-executive director of Awal Bank in Bahrain and of the
UK's Gatehouse Capital plc.
She is a Fellow of the Institute of Islamic Banking and Insurance in the United Kingdom and also serves on its Board of Governors within the
Islamic Banking Group. Stella has been a member of the Working Group established by the Central Bank of Bahrain (formerly the Bahrain
Monetary Authority) with the purpose of developing procedures and documentation for Islamic commodity trading. She has also assisted the
DIFC Islamic Advisory Committee with its work on selected strategic development initiatives. Stella represents her organisation on the
Market and Product Development Committee (MPDC) of the International Islamic Financial Market. Stella is a Member of the Islamic
Financial Services Board Task Force on Markets and Instruments for Sharia'a Compliant Liquidity Management and is a member of the
HM Treasury Islamic Finance Experts Group advising on the forthcoming Sukuk.
Stella speaks regularly at international conferences and has contributed to many publications including Islamic Banker, Euromoney,
institutional Investor, Arab Banker and New Horizon. She was co-author of Structuring Islamic Finance Transactions published by
Euromoney Books and in 2006 co-authored the Islamic Finance Qualification (IFQ) jointly offered by the UK Securities and Investment
Institute and the Ecole Superieure des Affaires in Lebanon, contributing the Islamic Asset and Fund Management module.
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