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Basheer A Oshodi Author

Basheer A. Oshodi has worked extensively in banking, management consultancy, real estate, Islamic finance and research. His experience of government, state-owned businesses and the organized private sector has greatly influenced his research interests. He has developed risk-asset products and sukuk propositions based on several Islamic finance contracts, which align with specific business requirements. He is engaged with the team designing the first Shariah-compliant short-term liquidity management instrument, comprising of several Islamic financial contracts. He became a member of the Nigerian Islamic Finance Working Group in 2009. Basheer was appointed, by Sterling Bank, as Group Head of its Non-Interest Banking Window in January 2013, where he drives the entire Islamic finance proposition. He is a pioneer of Islamic banking and finance in Nigeria; co-founder of the Centre for Islamic Socio-Economic Research (CISER) and co-founder of the Centre for Integral Social and Economic Research, where real transformational ideas are created and implemented via action research. Oshodi has recently been made a member of the Nigerian Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) Alternative Capital Market Products Master Plan Committee.