Monica Koep

Monica Koep currently practises as a democracy and governance consultant, having previously worked as a senior advisor to the Director General of the National Planning Commission in the President’s Office; senior technical advisor for democracy and governance for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Namibia; lead researcher for Namibia under the African Legislatures Project (ALP); and as a consultant for USAID Southern Africa. Koep has been a board member of the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) since 2000, and its chairperson since 2007. She currently serves as a public member of the Media Complaints Committee, and has been on the board of the Namibia Chapter of the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) Trust Fund since 1999. She had previously been a board member of the Namibian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) from 1990 to 1994, and an elected member of the Media Council in the early 1990s. From 1988 until 1994, Koep was an executive committee member of Namibia Peace Plan 435 (NPP 435), which campaigned for Namibian independence under the terms of UNSCR 435. She holds Bachelor’s and Honours degrees from the University of Cape Town, and an MPhil in Policy Studies from Stellenbosch University.