Lolade Abiola

Lolade Abiola is the Chief of Staff at Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL), where she oversees strategic planning, supports leadership operations and enables teams to deliver high-impact programmes across the organisation.

She has over 15 years of experience across the renewable energy, development, aviation and marine logistics sectors. She has held leadership roles having worked with the World Bank-funded Nigeria Electrification Project as well as the Nigerian government, including the Office of the Vice President and the Rural Electrification Agency.

She has played strategic roles in accelerating energy transitions, leading efforts to align energy transition strategies with implementation, policy and financing across public and private sectors. She has also supported global, regional and national initiatives in renewable energy manufacturing, electric mobility and clean energy deployment.

Before being appointed the Chief of Staff, Lolade led the SEforALL secretariat and data analytics team, directly supporting Mission 300 partners: the World Bank Group, the African Development Bank, Rockefeller Foundation and the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP), all working towards providing electricity to 300 million Africans by 2030. She also played a strategic role in the implementation of Nigeria’s Energy Transition Plan by helping to secure over USD 4 billion in financial commitments.

She is passionate about unlocking opportunities linked to energy access and the clean energy transition and plays a key role in convening stakeholders, shaping partnerships and supporting country-level implementation strategies across the world.