Dr. Nangula Nelulu Uaandja is a Chartered Accountant by Profession and has served as an
auditor and business consultant over 24 years at PwC Namibia until
December 2020 at the end of her 10-year service as the Firm's first female
and first black Country Managing Partner. Beside the country role at PwC
Namibia, she had also served on the PwC Southern Africa Regional
Governing body as well as the Regional Management Team.
She is the current and first Chief Executive Officer of the Namibia Investment Promotion and
Development Board (NIPDB), a Public Entity in the Presidency tasked
with the mandate of promoting and facilitating foreign and domestic
investments and coordinating the development of the MSME sector.
Over the years, Nangula has grown a burden concerning the triple
challenges of unemployment, inequality and poverty that are facing
Namibia. This led her to serve on the President’s high-level panel on the
Namibian economy as the Deputy Chairperson in 2019, in the midst of a
protracted recession and to pursue further studies (first the Master in
Business Leadership and then a Doctorate in Business Leadership, which
she completed in 2024) with focus on the collaborative role required
between the public and private sectors to drive inclusive economic growth
and find common solutions to these challenges.
Nangula was appointed by the late President H.E Dr. Hage G. Geingob
alongside five Ministers, the Governor of the Bank of Namibia and the
Economic Adviser to the President to serve as a member of Namibia’s first
Green Hydrogen Council which is the inter-ministerial political committee
responsible for overseeing GH2 implementation in Namibia.
