Sherifah Balogun is a business management professional with a career path spanning close to 12 years of experience in Banking, Enterprise Risk Management,Digital Financial Services and Public-Private Partnerships. Originally trained as a lawyer, she holds an MBA in Global Banking and Finance and a certificate in chartered management.

Presently, Sherifah is the Director of Strategy, Funding and Stakeholder Management at the Lagos State Employment Trust Fund (LSETF), an impact-driven programs and coordination agency focused on enabling job creation, entrepreneurial empowerment, and adoption advocacy for sustainable development goals.

In this role, she facilitates instrumental partnerships that lead to fundraising for effective program dissemination, drives optimal organization strategies and effectively manages stakeholders, across the board at LSETF. She tactfully leverages her skills in deal initiation, closure and strategic partnering to develop, manage and deliver partner expectations that harness market opportunities and achieve set goals.

Sherifah’s dedication and proficiencies reflect her capabilities and potential to drive winning projects, re-engineer and deliver on management’s expectations, through partner-centricity and collaborative efforts. Her dedication to and passion for impactful missions make her an outstanding contributor and leader in the business management and developmental space.