Send us a text 🎙️ Episode Summary A Continent in Motion: Eva Noelle on Security, Risk, and the Future of Security Risk in Africa In this powerful year-end conversation, Eva Noelle brings rare depth, context, and realism to what it truly means to operate in security, intelligence, and risk across the African continent. Drawing on extensive experience working across more than 50 African countries, Eva challenges Western-centric approaches to risk assessment and explains why security cannot be understood without local context, cultural intelligence, and human insight. She explores the realities of intelligence and investigations in environments where digitised records may be limited, political conditions vary widely, and assumptions can quickly become liabilities. The discussion spans geopolitical risk, ESG and supply-chain compliance, due diligence, fraud investigations, and country risk assessments — highlighting why ESG has shifted from a “nice to have” to a compliance and investment imperative. Eva also unpacks how climate change, displacement, and geopolitical instability are increasingly interconnected, reshaping the global security landscape. Beyond strategy, the episode offers thoughtful reflections on leadership, professional networks, and the importance of collaboration in security. Eva speaks candidly about her journey as a woman in a traditionally male-dominated field, the value of volunteering and professional service, and why security is fundamentally a team sport. This episode is not about headlines or stereotypes. It is about nuance, realism, and understanding risk as it actually exists — across borders, cultures, and contexts. A fitting close to 2025, this conversation invites security leaders to think bigger, listen harder, and reassess how they view Africa’s role in the future of global risk. BIO “Eva Nolle is the co-founder and Director of Operations for Ceravoid (Pty) Ltd, a commercial intelligence firm based in Cape Town, South Africa. Amongst others, the company provides due diligence enquiries, background screenings, country risk assessments, market entry analysis as well as commercial and fraud investigations. Throughout her career, Eva has not only worked in business intelligence but also provided crisis management training, travel security and conducts security audits of both private and commercial spaces on a regular basis. With a European background but having lived and worked on the African continent for several years, Eva is well-positioned to build a bridge for businesses wanting to operate in Africa. Drawing on her own practical experience, she assists clients in gaining a better understanding of the potential risks when operating on the continent and how to avoid, mitigate, transfer, accept or exploit them. Eva is a Certified Fraud Examiner as well as a Certified Protection Professional (CPP) and Professional Certified Investigator (PCI).” https://www.linkedin.com/in/eva-n-7a8a9796/ Security Circle ⭕️ is an IFPOD production for IFPO the International Foundation of Protection Officers
