Natasha Parkinson-Hossaini
Head of Corporate Partnerships
Country: Namibia
Natasha is the Head of Corporate Partnerships at Johara Global, bringing extensive expertise as a physical commodities specialist. Most recently, from 2021 to 2024, she worked as a consultant for Saphira Group, a London-based Private Equity Company.
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Natasha began her professional journey at Glencore in London, where she focused on the importation of oil products into East Africa, managing the supply of jet fuel, gasoil, and gasoline across Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, and crucially, for the copper mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Her earlier role at Glencore involved specializing in crude oil trading (both seaborne and pipeline) across various geographies. During her time at Glencore, she also undertook significant professional development, including an Oxford Princeton course in 2013 on physical crude oil trading and operations, followed by high-pressure crude oil trading exercises and simulations in 2014, which included psychometric testing for trading under pressure.
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Demonstrating her entrepreneurial spirit, Natasha was a core member of the founding team of a Swiss-based commodities trading firm with an Africa focus, backed by a London private equity fund. There, she developed a niche as a sugar trader, testament to her resilience, by trading and delivering over half of all Angolan sugar imports by 2017. Her commercial acumen was vital in managing trade financing and developing origination across diverse commodities, from energy and pharmaceuticals to staple consumables. This entrepreneurial flair continued with her co-founding Nexus Global WLL in 2018, a firm providing management and consultancy globally across sectors including commodities, emerging markets, investments, and technology. In 2020, before the age of 30, she co-founded her second business, Airtowater Global, addressing water and food security challenges.
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Natasha holds a BSc (Hons) in International Politics from City University, London. She is fluent in English and converses in Farsi, Azeri, Russian, and basic Arabic. Further enriching her perspective, in 2021, she contributed to "The Advancement of Civilization; Justice and the Oneness of Humankind" with the Foundation for the Application and Teaching of the Sciences (FUNDAEC).
A Bahá’í, Natasha is passionate about service to humanity, actively teaching children’s virtues classes at an orphanage in Namibia.