Haruna Jalo-Waziri is the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of CSCS Plc, Nigeria’s capital market infrastructure. Since his appointment in 2017, he takes full responsibility for the leadership of the institution towards diversifying the earnings and repositioning the core operations for growth and efficiency gains. Growing profit by 18% CAGR in his four years of stewardship and consistently delivering >20% return on average equity, including the pandemic year, Jalo continues to position CSCS as a leading financial market infrastructure in Africa, with focus on deepening the Nigerian market. Jalo, a member of the Advisory Board of BusinessDay Media, is a Non-Executive Director on the Boards of NG Clearing Limited and Lagos Commodities and Futures Exchange Limited. Jalo, who is a Non-Executive Director of the International Securities Services Association (ISSA), Switzerland, also represents the World Forum of Central Securities Depositories on the Operating Committee of ISSA. He is the Vice President of the Africa and Middle East Depositories Association (AMEDA) and an active member of Nigeria’s SEC-led Nigerian Capital Market Committee. Jalo, serves on the Institute’s Annual Workshop Organising Committee and plays active roles in different engagements and initiatives of the Institute. He chaired the Organising Committee of Nigeria’s Economic Summit in 2021 and continues to provide support to the Nigeria Economic Summit Group.

He was previously Executive Director, Capital Markets at The Nigerian Stock Exchange (now Nigerian Exchange Group Plc), where he led cross-functional teams responsible for the recovery of primary and secondary markets between 2012 and 2017. He co-managed a number of initiatives at the Exchange, including the launch of the Premium Board, strategic partnership of the London Stock Exchange with the Nigerian Stock Exchange and development of the Nigerian Savings Bond, FGN Sukuk Bond and Green Bond amongst several other market-wide initiatives. He was at different times Chief Executive Officer of UBA Stockbrokers Limited and UBA Asset Management Limited, both subsidiaries of United Bank for Africa Plc. He led the transformation of both businesses from being loss-making entities into sustainably profitable businesses, ranking top-5 in their respective segments. In the course of his career, he led the Corporate Finance practice of Afrinvest West Africa (formerly Sectrust) and was the Chief Investment Officer of First Alliance Pensions (now part of ARM Pensions). Haruna’s career traversed the Securities and Exchange Commission and Kakawa Asset Management Limited.
 
An award-winning Executive and alumnus of the Lagos Business School, IESE Spain, and Venture Capital Institute of America, Jalo is a graduate of Economics and has a post-graduate degree in Business Administration. He is a Chartered Stockbroker, Associate of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment (CISI) United Kingdom, and a member of the Institute of Capital Market Registrars. Mr. Waziri provides thought leadership perspectives on topical issues, particularly on the economy and financial markets on various global platforms