Bashir Sufyan is an accomplished specialist in energy, infrastructure, utilities regulation, and
law, with more than 30 years of experience. He built his core expertise in Nigeria’s power sector
and also had international internships in Argentina, Spain, the United States and the United
Kingdom.
His areas of expertise include procurement and regulatory frameworks, power-sector policy,
market design, project management, corporate restructuring and privatisation. He participated
and closed major multilateral-funded projects financed by the World Bank, African Development
Bank, European Union, United States Trade & Development Agency (USTDA), West African
Power Pool and ECOWAS.
Bashir’s professional developme
nt includes certifications from the International Law Institute (Washington DC), University of Cape Town, Harvard Kennedy School, Institute for Public-Private Partnerships (Washington DC), International School of Nuclear Law (Montpellier France), University of Florida—Public Utility Research Centre, and East & Southern African Management Institute ESAMI (Arusha- Tanzania).
His years of distinguished public-service career gives him deep strengths in consensus building,
negotiation, risk mitigation and team leadership—assets he brings to Mabon as Director, Legal
& Regulatory Affairs.
