Basheer Oshodi PhD has over 24 years’ work experience in banking, real estate, and academia. He is the Chief Executive of TrustArthur – a fund management company; advisor of a UK Shariah-compliant Real Estate Fund; was Group Head, Non-Interest Banking at Sterling Bank, and set up the non-interest banking window in 2013.  He also set forth the Alternative Bank proposition. He was a member of the Non-Interest Finance Working Group, sponsored by EFInA (DFID programme), and was a member of the SEC Alternative Finance Market Master Plan Committee. Basheer was Head, Non-Interest Finance and Head, Research at EFInA. He was Head, Islamic Banking Risk & Compliance at Stanbic IBTC Bank (a member of Standard Bank Group) and set up the non-interest banking window in 2009. He also initiated products compliant with non-interest finance principles for Stanbic IBTC Asset Management Ltd. He has worked as an investment analyst and business analyst in other capacities. He has attended Said Business School – University of Oxford, University of Pennsylvania, University of Colombia, University of Lagos, London Metropolitan University, University of Buckingham, and Da Vinci Institute – South Africa. 

Basheer is currently the President of the Non-Interest Financial Institutions Association of Nigeria (NIFIAN).