 In 2018, he was awarded honorary doctorates by Kingston University and by Nottingham Trent University.He received an Honorary Doctor of Letters from University of Worcester in 2019.Olisa is a Freeman of the City of London; Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists; a former Director of the Thomson Reuters Foundation; President of Thames Reach (a charity working to shelter and resettle the homeless in London); Founder and Chairman of the Powerlist Foundation (now the Aleto Foundation); Fellow of the British Computer Society (in 2006); Life Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.