Geingob, Hage, 1941–, Namibian political leader. Geingob joined the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) in the early 1960s. In exile from 1962, he became a member of SWAPO's central committee in 1969, and from 1975 to 1989 headed the United Nations Institute for Namibia. He chaired the assembly that drafted (1990) Namibia's post-independence constitution and then was the country's first prime minister (1990–2002). Geingob became SWAPO vice president in 2007, and then served as minister of trade and industry (2008–12) and prime minister (2012–14). He was elected president of Namibia in 2014 and reelected in 2019, having become president of SWAPO in 2017.
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