Ellen Ndeshi Namhila (born 1964), is a librarian by profession, author and currently serving as a Pro-vice Chancellor of the University of Namibia for Administration, Finance and Resource Mobilisation.
[1] The title of her thesis was Recordkeeping and missing "Native estate" records in Namibia: an investigation of colonial gaps in a post-colonial national archive.
[3] As the vice rector of UNAM, she is responsible e.g. for human resources, economy and information technology and the buildings of the university.
In 1997, she published a book titled "The Price of Freedom", which is a story of an escape from a violence which ruptured a child's sense that adults provide security, of an education obtained in The Gambia and Finland, of how friends and leaders in the camps replaced her extended family.
In 2005, she again published a book titled "Kaxumba KaNdola" which is a biography of Namibian political activist and founding member of SWAPO.