Speaker

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.