RASHEED YUSUF – Programme Director

Rasheed Yusuf is a seasoned media administrator, marketing specialist, and financial economist. He was promoted as Executive Director at Leadership Media Group, publishers of LEADERSHIP newspapers, following his consistent achievement of performance targets as Chief Marketing Officer of the company.

Earlier on in his career trajectory, he joined Media Trust Limited, publishers of DAILY TRUST newspapers, in 2007 and rose through the ranks to head the Marketing and Distribution units with oversights on products planning and strategy. Before then, he was in academia and had a stint as a lecturer in the Federal College of Education, Katsina.

Rasheed earned a Bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Jos and thereafter bagged a Master’s degree in financial economics from the University of Abuja.

Rasheed is a fellow of Corporate Institute for Strategic Research.

He is an author and loves reading. He is the Program Director at Climate Africa Media Initiative and Centre