Mahmoud Tatari is founder and general manager of the German based halal conformity assessment and halal certification body HALAL CONTROL GmbH. Being a member of the German Muslim community, he founded HALAL CONTROL in 2001. He is currently the head of the Integrity and Ethics committee of the World Halal Council (WHC) and member of the OIC/SMIIC working group 1 of the technical committee 11, which is designated to work on integrity and anti-bribery mechanisms in the global halal compliance system. He is a halal assurance expert and is a working group member of Transparency International.