Lawrence Oliver

Director - Deputy Chief Executive Officer
DDCAP

Lawrence Oliver is a Director and Deputy Chief Executive Officer of DDCAP and its subsidiaries DD&Co Limited and DDGI Limited.

Lawrence has principal responsibility for the company’s Trading and Trade Support desks and has extensive experience of arranging asset-based transactions that conform to Sharia’a stipulation.

He focuses specifically on Sharia’a compliant structured finance and asset origination and has broad knowledge of the physical commodity sector which has enabled him to
re-establish the traditional merchant trading capabilities of DD&Co Limited for the benefit of institutional clients operating within the Islamic Financial sector. More recently, Lawrence has worked on various innovative Islamic capital market transactions at the request of financial sector and government department / agency clients located in CIS and Central Asia, Middle East and South East Asia.

Lawrence has worked in the Islamic Finance market for more than twenty years. He joined DDCAP in April 1998. Previously he was an Assistant Manager at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson and a member of the team responsible for the Islamic Finance and Investment activity.

Lawrence is a regular speaker at many of the annual Islamic conferences held in the GCC, South East Asia and Europe.