Leadership Team
Elizabeth Kolade
Executive Director
Executive Director and Co-founder, leading RT’s strategic direction, institutional development, and expansion across Africa.
As Executive Director and Co-founder of Resilience Technologies, Elizabeth Kolade leads the organization’s strategic direction, institutional development, and expansion across Africa. Her work sits at the intersection of cybersecurity operations, digital policy, and international cyber cooperation.
Elizabeth brings over a decade of experience spanning government, the private sector, civil society, and academia, including previous experience as a Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) Lead. At Resilience Technologies, she has led the organization through critical growth phases, developed international partnerships, and supported its expansion beyond Nigeria into broader regional engagements.
Her research and analysis on cybersecurity and digital policy have been published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Journal of Cyber Policy. She has contributed to international policy discussions and forums including the UN Open-Ended Working Group, UNIDIR, the ITU WSIS Forum, the European Union Institute for Security Studies, and academic policy dialogues at King’s College London and the University of Bath.