Kabir Katata

Kabir is the Director of the Research, Policy & International relations Department of the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), Abuja. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the NDIC Quarterly, the Corporation’s Journal. He has led and conducted independent, large-scale research projects in the Corporation. He has served as NDIC representative on national interagency and international groups. Kabir has designed and developed several world-class risk forecasting, risk management and financial stability models. He was the risk hedging specialist for E.ON, the UK’s second biggest energy firm.

Kabir is a computational finance expert and quantitative energy strategist with broad-based power trading & risk management, quantitative finance and petroleum risk management expertise. He has over twenty five years’ experience in the design and management of technically innovative systems in multiple industries including energy (petroleum & power), finance, government, telecommunications and IT. He is a subject matter expert and has presented research papers on financial portfolio optimization; financial and non-financial risk management; artificial intelligence; customer profiling using historical data; power trading; quantitative energy; and deposit insurance worldwide. He has published in leading academic journals. Kabir is a certified Microsoft Professional in several technologies.

He has a Second Class Upper degree in Computer Science, Mathematics & Statistics (University of Abuja), a First Class MSc in Computer and Network Engineering (Sheffield Hallam University), an MSc & DIC in Finance (Imperial College London) and a PhD in Finance & Management Science (University of Warwick).