Basheer Oshodi, PhD has over 23 years of work experience in banking, real estate and academia. He is the Chief Executive of Trust Arthur – a fund management company; principal of a UK Shariah-compliant Real Estate Fund; was Group Head of 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 a member of the SEC Alternative Finance Market Master Plan Committee. Basheer was Head of non-interest Finance and Head of Research at EFInA. He was Head of Islamic Banking Risk and 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 the Said  Business School – University of Oxford, University of Pennsylvania, the University of Colombia, the University of Lagos, London Metropolitan University, University of Buckingham, and Da Vinci Institute – South Africa.