Feleti Teo

Feleti P. Teo, OBE
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
Occupation Lawyer

Feleti Penitala Teo OBE (born 9 October 1962) is the Executive Director of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) and a former Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum.[1] Teo has also served as Attorney General of Tuvalu and Director General of the Forum Fishery Agency.[2]

Career

Teo was appointed to head the WCPFC Secretariat as Executive Director in December 2014 and has been recognised as providing strong leadership since taking up the role[3]. Prior to this, Teo had an established track record as a senior regional bureaucrat in the Pacific, having served as an executive in several leading organisations.

From 1991 to 2000, Teo served as the Attorney General and Head of Legal and Judicial Services of Tuvalu, his home country.[1] From 2000 to 2006, he was Director General of the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA), based in Honiara, Solomon Islands.[1]

From 2007 to 2013 Teo served as Deputy Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) headquartered in Fiji.[4] During this period he also acted as the Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum (2008) due to the illness and subsequent death of Secretary General, Greg Urwin of Australia.[1][5]

In 2014 Teo was appointed as Interim Secretary General for the newly established regional organisation, the Pacific Islands Development Forum (PIDF), which he held until his appointment to the WCPFC. 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.[4] Ultimately, Slade was chosen as the next Secretary General at the Pacific Islands Forum meeting in Niue.[6]

Teo was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to government.[7]

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]

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. ↑ "WCPFC improves observer safety".
  4. 1 2 "Three In Running For Forum Secretary General". Pacific Magazine. 6 August 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-14.
  5. ↑ "Executive Heads of The Secretariat". Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat. 28 June 2017. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
  6. ↑ "Pacific Islands Forum chooses new Secretary General". Radio New Zealand International. 21 August 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-14.
  7. ↑ "No. 60538". The London Gazette (Supplement). 15 June 2013. p. 1.


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