Feleti Teo

Feleti Teo
Executive Director of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC)
Assumed office
December 2014
Personal details
Born (1962-10-09) 9 October 1962
Tuvalu Tuvalu
Spouse(s) Tausaga
Children 4

Feleti Penitala Teo OBE (born 9 October 1962), also spelled Feleti Te'o, is a Tuvaluan former Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum.[1]

In December 2014 Teo was appointed the Executive Director of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC). Teo as previously served as Attorney General of Tuvalu, Director General of the Forum Fishery Agency, Deputy Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum and immediately before his appointment to the WCPFC he was the interim Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Development Forum.[2]

Education

Feleti Teo received his Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand.[1] He obtained his Master of Laws degree in Public Law from Australian National University in Canberra, Australia.[1]

Career

Teo served as the Attorney General of Tuvalu, with the official title of Attorney General and Head of the Legal and Judicial Services of Tuvalu.[1] Before becoming Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum, Teo served as the Director General of the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA), which is based in Honiara, Solomon Islands.[1]

Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum

Teo was appointed acting Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum on 2 May 2008, following the resignation of Australian Greg Urwin due to illness. Teo had served as Urwin's deputy Secretary General. He officially began work at the Secretariat on 22 May 2008.[1]

Teo was nominated for a full three-year term as Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum in August 2008 by the government of Tuvalu.[3] The other two nominees for Secretary General were Wilkie Rasmussen, the Foreign Minister of the Cook Islands and Tuiloma Neroni Slade, the former Attorney General of Samoa and former justice of the International Criminal Court.[3] Ultimately, Slade was chosen as the next Secretary General at the Pacific Islands Forum meeting in Niue.[4]

Teo was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to government.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Tuvalu's Feleti Te'o Is Forum's New Deputy Secretary General". Pacific Magazine. 3 May 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-14.
  2. ↑ Pareti, Samisoni (3 December 2014). "Tuvalu 'son' secures top WCPFC job". Island Business. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
  3. 1 2 "Three In Running For Forum Secretary General". Pacific Magazine. 6 August 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-14.
  4. ↑ "Pacific Islands Forum chooses new Secretary General". Radio New Zealand International. 21 August 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-14.
  5. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 60538. p. 1. 15 June 2013.


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