About our Founder
Abdulai Nasurulai is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the Africa Chamber of Iron and Steel Industry (ACISI). At the governmental level, he is also the Director for Corporate Affairs and International Relations of Ghana Integrated Iron and Steel Development Corporation (GIISDEC); a governmental institution responsible for regulating, promoting and developing Ghana’s iron and steel industry. Nasurulai has over fifteen(15) years’ experience in the banking, energy/oil and gas & iron and steel sectors in Ghana and abroad. He is the co-founder of Chamber of Iron and Steel Industry-Ghana. He is a Chartered administrator and a Chartered Management Consultant with licenses from Chartered Institute of Administrators and Management Consultants-Ghana. He holds an MBA in Oil and Gas Management from Coventry University in the United Kingdom where he served as a teaching assistant on the postgraduate oil and gas programme. He also holds bachelor’s degree in integrated development studies from University for Development Studies in Ghana. Nasurulai is also a PhD candidate at Central University of Technology, Free State-South Africa where he is currently researching on Corporate Social Investments in the mining industry in Ghana.
He has previously worked as an adjunct lecturer at Regent University College, Ghana Christian University College and Bluecrest University College, in Ghana. Nasurulai has consulted widely in the energy and agribusiness financing sectors in Ghana, Ivory Coast and United Kingdom. His areas of expertise are oil and gas contracts’ review, petroleum Project management and Occupational Health and safety audit/practice. He has unique competency in oil and gas medium enterprise development.
Whilst in the United Kingdom, Nasurulai consulted for ROYAL DUTCH SHELL-UK regarding the company’s re-engagement in Libya’s oil and gas industry.
Before the postgraduate study, he undertook his bachelor’s degree study at the University for Development Studies where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in Integrated Development Studies-Ghana. Between 2009 and January 2011, he worked with Fidelity Bank Limited at the Adum-Kumasi branch as Team leader for Northern corridor operations of the MTN mobile money and later the Officer in charge of transaction banking at the Tamale branch of the bank.
Nasurulai also served as a senior facilitator at Amitlaw Profesional Development Institute-Tema where he lectured on Lloyds Academy-UK and IBC In-company training modules. Among the modules that he facilitates include Oil and Gas Logistics management, Risk and Uncertainty mitigation & management in oil and gas industry, Finding Oil and Gas, to name a few.
He has been a trainer and speaker to a number of both local and international seminars and workshops. In January 2013, Nasurulai was a facilitator on entrepreneurship and Career development organized by Petroleum Skills Development Institute for selected participants at Accra Institute of Technology (AIT). In March, 2013, he was a facilitator on oil and gas enterprise development at a workshop organized by Polytechnic Engineering Students Association of Ghana (PESAG) in Koforidua. In September 2013, Nasurulai was the coordinator and co-facilitator of World Bank funded training project on Petroleum Economics and Oil and Gas industry dynamics for staff of Ministry of Finance in Ghana.
Nasurulai is also an ardent advocate of local content development and sustainable development of the Ghanaian oil and gas industry. Nasurulai has travelled widely having been to United Kingdom, Republic of China, United Arab Emirates, Kenya, Nigeria,Ivory Coast and Togo.
He has a number of publications on sustainable development of Ghana’s oil and gas industry especially on local content participation and development.