Mrs. Shakirat Adepeju Babatunde is a Chartered Accountant with over 25 years of experience in public sector, audit, banking, finance, and academics. She holds a BSc in Accounting, MSc in Accounting, MBA in Marketing Management, and a PhD in Accounting research. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria and the Nigerian Institute of Management. Currently, she serves as the Managing Director of Lekki Concession Company Limited in Lagos State Government. She has authored several publications on leadership, infrastructure management, and public expenditure.

1. MRS. SHAKIRAT ADEPEJU BABATUNDE, FCA, B.Sc. (Hons.), M.Sc. MBA, FNIM, MIPA, MISACA
Mrs. Babatunde is an alumnus of Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts United
States of America, She is a Chartered Accountant by profession. Member of the innovative
Institute of Public Accountants, Australia (MIPA). She has a Bachelor of Science degree
(Second Class Upper Division) with a Master of Science in Accounting. She is a Ph.D.
Accounting research fellow from the University of Lagos, Akoka. Her research interest is in
public sector accounting. She possesses, a Master’s Degree in Business Administration (MBA)
with a bias for marketing management, from the ESUT Business School of the Enugu State
University of Science and Technology. She is a Professional member of Information Systems
Audit and Control Association now ISACA.
A Fellow of the prestigious Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) and a Fellow
of the Nigerian Institute of Management. Shakirat serves on the Governing Council of (ICAN)
since 2006. She had her professional accountancy training with Akinmade & Co and
Babington Ashaye & Co. (Chartered Accountants). Mrs. Babatunde has over 25 years varied
leadership experience in the public sector, audit and compliance, banking, finance, accounting,
academics. She was treasurer and Chief inspector while in the banking sector. She is presently
with Lagos State Government as Managing Director, Lekki Concession Company Limited.
Lecturer in allied subjects in tertiary institutions, workshops and seminars. Member of the
Federal government of Nigeria, Universities visitation panel for 2010.
She has sponsored many professional workshops and authored many books, journal articles
and other national and international publications on leadership, control, infrastructure
management, youth employment and entrepreneurship. Shakirat is the corresponding author
of the paper titled; The Effects of Leadership Quality on Public Expenditure
Management: Evidence from Lagos State Treasury under Akinwunmi Ambode as

2. Accountant General, International Journal of Business, Economics and Law, Vol. 6 (1),
2015.
Mrs. Babatunde is the founder of entrepreneurship centre for Chartered Accountants; She is
the founder of integritynextlevel association for a better life for Nigerian citizens. Mrs.
Babatunde is a donor of many scholarships, prizes and awards. This sophisticated, professional
lady of letters has visited over thirty countries of the World covering United States of America,
Asia, Arab, Europe and Africa. She was a paper presenter, ICAN-USA Conference 2014 in
Canada, ICAS 2014 in Malaysia. Chair of Public sector accounting session, IAAER conference
2014, in Florence, Italy. A paper presenter on taxation and entrepreneurship ICGFM 2015
conference in Miami, USA. Mrs. Shakirat Adepeju Babatunde is happily married with
Children.
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