Olamide leads network and engagement initiatives at the Open Nuclear Network (ONN), a PAX sapiens programme.
His research focuses on international security, nuclear non-proliferation, and the intersection of open-source investigative methodology and diplomacy.
He is particularly interested in the dynamics of the Third Nuclear Age and the legal and political justifications surrounding attacks on nuclear facilities.
Prior to ONN, Olamide served as Special Envoy for the African Commission on Nuclear Energy (AFCONE) and led the European Leadership Network’s Protecting the Non-Proliferation Treaty programme.
His academic career includes serving as a Research Associate in Nuclear Politics at the University of Leicester and a Senior Teaching Fellow at SOAS University of London, where he led the global disarmament programme, SCRAP Weapons.
Olamide's article Justifying Attacks on Nuclear Facilities was The Nonproliferation Review’s most-read of 2024.
In 2023, he published Accommodating Nutopia in the Review of International Studies.
Olamide is a frequent commentator for Al-Jazeera, The BBC, France 24, and allAfrica.
He featured alongside Ireland's former President Mary Robinson in the film Solutions to Existential Threats.
Open Source Investigations in the Age of Google
World Scientific, 2024
The Global Third Nuclear Age
Routledge, 2025
