Speakers
Hon. Ebson Uanguta
Governor
Bank of Namibia
Mr. Ebson Uanguta currently serves as the Governor of the Bank of Namibia. His professional journey commenced in 1996 as a Research Assistant and Junior Researcher at the Namibia Economic Policy Research Unit (NEPRU). In 2000, he joined the Bank of Namibia as an Economist in the Research Department. Over the years, he has steadily advanced through various roles, including Senior Economist, Deputy Director responsible for the Economic Policy Research Division and the Modelling Forecasting Division in 2002 and 2006, respectively. From 2007 to 2010, Mr. Uanguta was appointed as an Advisor in the Executive Director's Office at the IMF in Washington, D.C., representing Namibia and other member countries. Upon his return, he was appointed Director of Research at the Bank of Namibia in 2011, and in 2012, he assumed the role of Deputy Governor. Mr. Uanguta holds a Master’s degree in Economics from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia (1999), and a
Bachelor of Economics from the University of Namibia (1997). He has attended several executive education Programmes, including the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School (2018) and the Senior Executive Fellow program at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, USA.
Speaking at SFF 2026
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4:40–5:10pmThu 19 NovPolicy StageHall 3, Singapore EXPOOpen
Technology Rewiring
Financing Financial Infrastructure in Emerging Markets
Policy StageHall 3, Singapore EXPOOpen
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Hortense MudengeChief Executive OfficerKigali International Financial Centre
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Dr. Shaji Krishnan VChairmanNABARD
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Dr. Veerathai SantiprabhobFormer GovernorBank of Thailand
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Hon. Ebson UangutaGovernorBank of Namibia
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Robert KaranjaBoard MemberMojaloop FoundationModerator
About this session
Building the infrastructure for financial inclusion and cross-border connectivity is one challenge. Financing it is another, and it's the one that usually gets skipped over in the excitement about what could be built. Is the binding constraint on financial inclusion the technology, or the capital to build and sustain it?
This panel brings together leaders from a small economy building its own digital public infrastructure, a hub positioning itself to draw global capital into a fast-growing regional market, and a development bank whose entire mandate is getting credit to populations mainstream finance still doesn't reach. The dialogue will focus on where the funding for this actually comes from, state budgets, development finance, or private capital drawn in by the right market positioning, and what it takes for a smaller or developing market to make itself genuinely investable. -

