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Departure of Dr Johannes Gawaxab
19 November 2025 | Media Release
 

The Board of Directors of the Bank of Namibia hereby announces, with gratitude, the departure of Dr Johannes !Gawaxab, the sixth Governor of the Bank of Namibia. Dr !Gawaxab  has diligently served the institution for over five and a half years since his appointment on 1 June 2020. His last day of service is the 31st of December 2025. 

Dr !Gawaxab’s served a distinguished tenure  filled with exemplary stewardship, bold reforms and transformative leadership, guiding the Bank through one of the most challenging and consequential periods in Namibia’s modern economic history. His leadership coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic, global economic turbulence, renewed domestic reform momentum, and a financial sector undergoing structural change. Throughout this period, he oversaw a strengthened macroeconomic framework characterised by low and stable inflation, a resilient financial system and an increasingly modernised policy environment.