Monica Geingos

About

Monica Geingos is a qualified lawyer with extensive corporate experience. Mrs Geingos served as the 3rd First Lady of the Republic of Namibia between 2015 and 2024. Prior to becoming the First Lady, she was a co-shareholder and the Managing Director of Namibia’s largest private equity fund for over a decade. She also served on the Boards of large public and private sector companies as either Chairperson or Deputy Chairperson. Mrs Geingos was a long-standing member of high-level policy advisory Boards, i.e., the President’s Economic Advisory Council, the governing Party’s Think Tank, and the National Council of the Namibia Chamber of Commerce and Industry, with the mandate to advise on national policy formulation and implementation. During her tenure as the 3rd First Lady, Mrs Geingos channelled her first-hand insight into the intrinsic relationship between social development challenges and macro-economic trends into the work of the One Economy Foundation. The One Economy Foundation focuses on sustainably lifting people out of poverty traps and ensuring fair access to opportunities. She is currently overseeing the institutionalization of the #BeFree Movement key learnings into Project #BeFree - a one-stop youth center of excellence that intends to provide a continuum of holistic services to meaningfully close service delivery gaps experienced by young people. In recognition of her work for Young Women and Adolescents Girls and leadership in the global agenda to ending AIDS by 2030, Mrs. Geingos was awarded the ‘World Without AIDS Award’ from the German AIDS Foundation.