Maureen Hinda-Mbuende

Maureen Magreth Hinda-Mbuende (born 9 September 1964) was a Namibian legislator in the National Assembly and a politician who served as a deputy minister of Finance and Public Enterprises.

Early life and education Hinda was born on 9 September 1964 in Tses, South West Africa (today in the ǁKaras Region of Namibia). She matriculated at Suiderlig High School in 1983 and completed her B.Com. Hons in business administration at the University of the Western Cape in 2002. In 1990 Hinda worked as school teacher at Fredrick Awaseb School. She later served at UN Volunteers as an administration assistant for finance. From 1994 to 1996 she worked as an internal audit clerk at City Savings and Investment Bank. She had been a regional manager at Namibia Housing Enterprise (NHE) in 2002–2009. Hinda-Mbuende left NHE in 2009 to become a managing director at the South Cross HCM Center before she was appointed to be a deputy minister in 2015. She served until March 2021. On 21 April 2021 Hinda-Mbuende was again appointed as deputy minister, this time with the Finance and Public Enterprises portfolio.