Senior fellow
Mahmud Hassan is a Nigerian economist and banker with over three decades of experience in financial sector regulation, policy research, and public service. He was the Director of the Trade and Exchange Department and the Director of the Monetary Policy Department of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), coordinating policy implementation of Nigeria ’ s foreign exchange management, money market regulation, and banking sector supervision. As Director of the Monetary Policy Department, Dr. Hassan coordinated the Bank’ s collaboration with regional and international monetary, regulatory, financial and multilateral agencies including the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), West African Monetary Agency (WAMA), European Central Bank (ECB), International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group, and coordinated the IMF’ s Article Consultative Missions to Nigeria.
Prior, Dr. Hassan served as the Group Head of Macroprudential Analysis in the Financial Policy and Regulation Department of the CBN, appraising banking industry financial soundness indicators and coordinating country sovereign risk rating missions to Africa ’ s largest economy. He was previously Special Advisor to the Governor of the CBN. Dr. Hassan obtained a Ph.D. in Economics and an M.Sc. in Energy Economics and Policy at the University of Surrey, UK, an MBA (Finance), and a B.Sc. Economics from Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria. He is a Certified Bank Examiner, an AML/CFT Certified Analyst, and holds a Harvard University Executive Policy Certificate. He has also served as a Non-Executive Director of the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC).