Mr. Abdul-Rasheed AKOLADE is an experienced Life Insurance and Reinsurance Underwriter.  He was Head of Life Business Operations at Continental Reinsurance Plc, Nigeria between 2006 and 2013. In 2014, he became the Deputy Director-General of West African Insurance Institute, Banjul-The Gambia from where he joined Africa Re in December 2014. He is presently an Assistant Director, Underwriting and Marketing (Life Operations) with African Reinsurance Corporation, Lagos, Nigeria.

He is a Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria and an Associate of the Nigerian Institute of Management. He followed Life and Pensions Specialist Route in his Associateship Diploma Professional Examinations of the Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria.  Mr. Akolade holds a Higher National Diploma in Insurance from Lagos State Polytechnic (now Lagos State University of Science and Technology) and from Al-Hikmah University, Nigeria as well as an MBA from EDHEC Business School, France.

He has four academic publications to his credit and he is a co-author of the Insurance Textbook for the Nigerian Senior Secondary School Students published by the Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria in 2013 and Modern Insurance Practice (A Textbook for Tertiary Institutions) published by the Profesional Insurance Ladies Association, Nigeria in 2023.

He has presented many life (re)insurance seminar papers both locally and internationally.