Tangeni Amupadhi

Tangeni Amupadhi is the Editor-in-chief of The Namibian. Amupadhi took over from founding and long-serving editor Gwen Lister, who has been in the position for 26 years.

Amupadhi worked at the Namibia Press Agency, South Africa's Mail & Guardian newspaper, and The Namibian. He is a Fulbright scholar at the University of Maryland, College Park as well as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, both in the U.S. In 2004, together with several people, he set up Insight Namibia as a private media company bringing out a monthly business and current affairs magazine. He worked as the magazine's editor until 2011.