11-13 June 2025
Golden Tulip Zanzibar Airport, Zanzibar Tanzania
Profile
Bisey Uirab
Chief Executive Officer
Namibia Airports Company
Bisey is currently Chief Executive Officer of the Namibia Airports Company since May 2019 following some years’ of instability within the organisation. He is tasked with ensuring that NAC achieves its aims of being a customer centric company, organisational transformation, good corporate governance, revenue sustainability and safe / secure operations at all 8 airports within his jurisdiction.
Prior to Namibia Airports Company, Bisey spent 10 years as the Chief Executive Officer of the Namibian Ports Authority. He also worked in senior and executive management capacities in the mobile telecommunications environment at MTC, Namibia’s leading mobile telecommunications provider, and Somali Telecoms Group, the oldest private telecommunications provider in the greater Somalia Region. He was responsible for the human resources function in both these institutions. Prior to joining the telecommunications industry, Bisey worked for Bank of Namibia as Human Resources & Training Manager and for the Legal Assistance Centre, as Paralegal & Office Manager.
Bisey is currently the President of the Namibia Chamber of Commerce and Industry since December 2020, but has served on the Board of NCCI since 2010. Other Boards that he currently serves on include: Sanlam Namibia (Chairman) and Pupkewitz Group Holdings. Over the years, he also served on the Boards of several institutions, including the Institute of Bankers of Namibia, Namibia Employers Federation, Employment Equity Commission, Namibia Wildlife Resorts (NWR), Legal Assistance Centre, Namibia Qualifications Authority (alternate), Namibia Red Cross Society, Walvis Bay Corridor Group, International Association of Ports and Harbours (IAPH) and Port Management Association of Eastern and Southern Africa (PMAESA).
Under Bisey’s stewardship, Namport’s balance sheet grew from N$2 Billion in 2009 to over N$7 Billion in 2018. During this period, Namport implemented major infrastructural and logistics projects, including the construction of the New Container Terminal at the Port of Walvis Bay, development of the Walvis Bay North Port initiative, as well as infrastructural optimisation of the current container terminal. He has been instrumental in positioning Namibia as a Logistics Hub across all transport sectors.
Bisey holds a Masters degree in Business Administration from Edinburgh Business School (Herriot-Watt University) in Scotland, in addition to his other academic and professional qualifications.
Bisey lectured the following MBA courses on a part-time basis: Human Resources Management, Strategic Management & Managing Strategic Change, for MANCOSA and Organisational Behaviour & Management, for Regent Business School.