Emmanuel Kuyole

Emmanuel Kuyole is a program officer on the Natural Resources and Climate Justice team at the Ford Foundation, based in Lagos, Nigeria. Before joining the Ford Foundation in 2021, Emmanuel was executive director of the Centre for Extractive and Development, Africa, where he was responsible for strategy development, team leadership, fundraising, research and program management. Previously, he established the institutional and program presence of the Natural Resource Governance Institute (formerly Revenue Watch) in sub-Saharan Africa as Africa regional coordinator and later served as deputy director, Africa, from 2008 to 2016. He has led the design and execution of several programs on transparency and accountability, capacity building, community participation and citizen oversight in the extractive sector He has also championed centering Africa’s extractive sector in development policy discourse, with the goal of promoting better governance of the continent’s mineral resource endowment. Emmanuel holds a master’s degree in oil and gas management from Coventry University, UK, and an executive master’s degree in governance and leadership from the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration, Ghana.