The Embassy of Namibia in London

Amb. Linda Anne Scott

H.E. Linda Scott completed her Bachelors and Honours degrees in Social Science and African Studies at the University of Cape Town and later obtained a Masters in Governance and Political Transformation from the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa.

Immediately after independence she joined the Namibian Foreign Ministry and has spent over 30 years in the diplomatic service. She has served as First Secretary in Cuba, Sweden, Belgium, and Botswana, and as Counsellor in Nigeria and Ethiopia. She served as the Personal Assistant to then Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Rapporteur for the 1995 Beijing Conference on Women. From 2007 to 2009, she was Deputy Director for Southern Africa and from 2014 to 2016 she held the position of Director of Multilateral Relations and Cooperation.

In 2016 Linda Scott took up the position of Deputy Permanent Representative at the Namibian Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York.  She was elected to serve as First Vice President of the International Maritime Organisation Assembly from 2021 and as Chair of the Board of Governors of the Commonwealth from 2022 to 2024. High Commissioner Scott was also instrumental in establishing the Women in Diplomacy Network.

Her posting in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the second, as she began her diplomatic career in 1990 by opening the High Commission in London shortly after independence.