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 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. Bashir is currently a Senior Consultant on Climate Insurance and Governance aimed at De-Risking Agricultural Finance and Climate Resilience (DAFCR) that sits within the Agriculture Finance and Rural Development Department of AfDB. He is one of the key resources in the design and development of The Africa Climate Risk Insurance Facility 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.