Monica Geingos (née Kalondo; born 15 November 1976) is a
Namibian
Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and ea ...
entrepreneur, lawyer and
First Lady of Namibia since 2015. She has been a board member and director within many of the country's large companies. She had also chaired the Presidential Economic Advisory Council.
Personal life and career
In 2012, she was voted one of the 12 most influential people of Namibia, and in 2020 she was in the list of 100 most influential African women. Geingos is a graduate of the
University of Namibia, and spent the early part of her career working for the
Namibia Stock Exchange
The Namibian Stock Exchange (NSX) ( af, Namibiese Effektebeurs; german: Börse Namibia) is the only stock exchange in Namibia. Based in Windhoek, it is one of List of African stock exchanges, the largest stock exchanges on the African continent. I ...
(NSX) in
Windhoek. Geingos served as Chairman of the Board of eBank Namibia and is the managing director of the financial undertaking Stimulus, and General Director of Point Break.
Geingos holds two legal degrees B. Juris and an LLB.
Geingos married the then-
President-elect of Namibia,
Hage Geingob, on February 14, 2015, shortly before he was sworn into office. She has served as First Lady since March 2015.
Geingos spent 15 years in the financial sector, as a private equity and governance expert.
References
External links
Office of the First Lady
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1976 births
Living people
First Ladies of Namibia
Namibian businesspeople
Namibian lawyers
University of Namibia alumni
20th-century Namibian lawyers
21st-century Namibian lawyers
Namibian business executives