About

Abubakar Suleiman is an economist, commercial banker, and essayist based in Lagos. Over twenty-five years in African financial markets, his work has focused on the architecture of domestic credit, capital formation in volatile currencies, and the structural misalignments between macroeconomic policy and urban commercial reality.

He serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Sterling Bank and Sterling Financial Holdings Company, where he has led the restructuring of institutional lending toward health, education, agriculture, renewable energy, and transportation. Alongside his executive responsibilities, he advises national and multilateral bodies on financial inclusion, debt sustainability, and capital market deepening across Sub-Saharan Africa.

His writing examines how institutions earn or lose trust, why liquidity fails to translate into physical productivity, and how the economic energy of informal African cities defies conventional orthodoxies. He holds degrees in economics from the University of Abuja and the University of Oxford.

All writing, arguments, and commentary published on this site are expressed entirely in a personal capacity and do not represent the official views or policies of any corporate board, institution, or advisory body with which he is affiliated.