ALSA welcomes first CFO: Pamela Lulama Nqini
16th Jan, 2025
The ALSA team welcomes Pamela Nqini as CFO. We've experienced rapid growth in the last 6 months and are building an EXCO of professionals to assist with our dream of rapid gap market housing development across SA.
Herewith is a brief introduction to this impressive young lady.
Ms. Nqini is the current Managing Executive for Family Tree
Holdings, an Enterprise Development platform, a role where she is on
mandate to facilitate the enactment of the Township Economic
Development Act. She was the Head of Market Development for the
Centre for Affordable Housing Finance in Africa. Ms. Nqini received a
master’s in international development management from the
Westminster University (UK). A developed Affordable Housing expert
in Affordable Housing Finance & Securitization with the Wharton
School of the University of Pennsylvania (USA). I am also a global
assessor-coach of the IFC World Bank for Affordable Housing.
She has served in secretarial duties at the African Union for Housing Finance, where she
has designed and coordinated capacity-building programs on Managing Recoveries for
Informal Income Earning Borrowers in Zimbabwe and on Credit Default Risk
Management for Affordable Housing Finance in Zambia. She has served as a Technical
Project Lead appointed for a UNOPS - United Nations Operations Project Services project
in Kenya - for community and homeowner-led incremental housing construction and
Finance. She also coordinates study tours to South Africa for social and affordable
housing finance institutions for strategic partnerships and cross-learning opportunities,
in 2022, hosted the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria executive board committee.
In a few of the discussion panels, she has been called to share opinions and as a speaker
include:
• Africa Impact Investing Leaders Forum on discussion of Impact Investing in
Affordable Housing, in London UK,
• ASEA (African Securities Exchange Association) Conference on the discussion of
African Capital Markets as key facilitators for Affordable Housing Investment in
Africa, in Lagos -Nigeria (Nigeria Stock Exchange)
• Pension Funds Trustees Conference of fund managers in -Mombasa, Kenya.
• WECONA (Women Economic Assembly), on the Township Economy