Monem Salam is Executive Vice President and a Director of Saturna Capital. He is an Executive Director of Saturna Sdn Bhd and portfolio manager for the Saturna Global Sustainable Fund. He received his degrees from the University of Texas: BA at Austin campus and MBA at Dallas campus.

He worked as the Chief Investment Officer for ITG & Associates (Dallas) until 1999, then as a representative with Morgan Stanley (suburban Dallas) until joining Saturna Capital in June 2003. He served as the Director of Islamic Investing and Deputy Portfolio Manager to the Amana Mutual Funds Trust until moving to Kuala Lumpur in 2012 to oversee Saturna Sdn. Bhd. In 2018, he returned to the United States and resumed his role as Deputy Portfolio Manager of Amana Income, Amana Growth and Amana Developing World Funds.

Monem is an Adjunct Professor at IE Business School in Madrid, Spain and speaks at Islamic finance/investment conferences worldwide and he is co- author of ‘A Muslim’s Guide to Investing and Personal Finance’. Monem has authored the chapter on Islamic investing in both Contemporary Islamic Finance and Islamic Capital Markets and he contributes articles to leading Islamic financial magazines. As a mark of recognition of his achievements in Islamic economy, Monem has been ranked among 500 of the Islamic world's most prominent and influential leaders by ISLAMICA 500 in both 2015 and 2019.