Dr. Hassan Bashir

With over 27 years of leadership across Africa’s private, development, and educational sectors, Dr. Hassan Bashir has founded and scaled several companies spanning insurance, technology, healthcare, fintech, creator economy, and livestock and fodder farming. Bashir advises industry regulators, universities, MDBs, and private firms on insurance and risk management, climate risk, governance, and strategy. Bashir is an adjunct faculty teaching sustainable entrepreneurship, leadership, and governance at USIU-Africa’s Chandaria School of Business.
Hassan Bashir is currently a Senior Consultant, Climate Insurance, Policy and Governance at the African Development Bank (AfDB). He is one of the key resources in the design and development of The Africa Climate Risk Insurance Framework for Adaption (ACRIFA), a facility aiming to mobilize $1 billion of concessional, high-risk capital, and grants to de-risk private sector investments geared toward the development and uptake of climate insurance solutions for the Agri-Food Sector in Africa.
Bashir also is a member of the eminent High-Level Panel (HLP) on Closing the Climate Protection Gap that sits at the Centre of Disaster Protection (CDP) in London.