Ali Baba Mairami

Acting Director, Development & Finance Institutions Supervision Department, CBN Nigeria

Ali Baba Mairami currently serves as Acting Director of the Development & Finance Institutions Supervision Department at the Central Bank of Nigeria, where he coordinates the supervision and surveillance of Development Finance Institutions, Finance Companies, and Bureaux de Change. In this capacity he advances the Bank’s mandate to preserve financial system stability and to catalyse sustainable, inclusive economic growth and development.

He brings to the role more than three decades of institutional leadership spanning technology, cyber resilience, and enterprise programme management. Prior to his current appointment, he led the establishment of the Nigeria Financial Industry Computer Emergency Response Team (NFICERT), overseeing its operating model, governance framework, and multi-year strategic plan. His earlier service at the Central Bank of Nigeria includes Deputy Director roles in the IT Programme Management Office and the Operations Management Division, and leadership of the Bank’s Security Operations Centre and Architecture & Strategy functions — experience that underpins a supervisory approach attuned to operational and technological risk across the financial system.

An electrical engineer by training, Mr. Mairami holds an MBA and a Master’s in Information Management. He is a certified information systems risk professional (CRISC), is TOGAF- and ITIL-qualified, and is a member of COREN, the Nigerian Society of Engineers, and the Computer Professionals of Nigeria.