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New Permanent Representative of Namibia Presents Credentials to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva

Presentation of Credentials

Ndelitungapo Ndiitah Nghipondoka-Robiati, the new Permanent Representative of Namibia to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented her credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Ms. Nghipondoka-Robiati is also Namibia’s Ambassador Designate to Switzerland.  Prior to her appointment to Geneva, she had been serving as Executive Director of the Namibian Ministry of International Relations and Trade since April 2025.

She has held several high-level positions within the Namibian Government, including Executive Director of the Ministry of Gender Equality, Poverty Eradication and Social Welfare (2024-2025); Deputy Executive Director for Trade and Commerce at the Ministry of Industrialisation and Trade (2019-2024); and Chief Executive Officer of the Namibia Trade Forum (2012-2019).

Ms. Nghipondoka-Robiati began her career as an academic, lecturing agricultural economics at the University of Namibia (2003-2006) and in trade for the Youth Leadership Development Programme run by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung [Friedrich Ebert Foundation] (2009-2020).

She has a Master of Science degree in agricultural economics from the University of Sydney, Australia (2003) and a Bachelor of Science degree in the same discipline from the University of Namibia (2000).  Born in 1976, she is married and has two children.

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