Haruna Jalo-Waziri is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Central Securities Clearing System Plc (CSCS Plc). Before joining CSCS Plc in 2017, he was the Executive Director for Capital Markets at The Nigerian Stock Exchange (The NSE).

He has three decades of experience in the Capital Market specialising in deal origination, Investment Management, Securities Trading and Regulation.

Jalo-Waziri started his Market career at The NSE and subsequently moved to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). He worked with Afrinvest West Africa (formerly SECTRUST) and Kakawa Discount House Limited, where he started the Asset Management Department, which he later transformed into a full-fledged company: Kakawa Asset Management Limited (now FBN Merchant Bank).  In 2007, he was appointed MD/CEO of UBA Stockbrokers Limited, a subsidiary of United Bank for Africa (UBA Plc). He thereafter became the MD/CEO of UBA Asset Management Ltd.

He has served on several boards and he is the current Vice-President of the AIFA Reading Society, an NGO that focuses on promoting a reading culture and the attainment of sustainable educational development across Africa.

Haruna Jalo-Waziri has a degree in Economics from the University of Maiduguri, Nigeria and holds an MBA from Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Bauchi, Nigeria. He has, throughout the course of his career, attended local and international courses and seminars on Capital Markets operations, management and leadership. He is an alumnus of the Lagos Business School and the Venture Capital Institute of America.

He is also a life member of the Institute of Directors.