Michelle Nayahamui Rooney
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Michelle Nayahamui Rooney has dual Papua New Guinean and Australian nationality. She is a research fellow at the Development Policy Centre of the Australian National University and publishes extensively on matters relating to Papua New Guinea (PNG) and the Pacific islands.
Michelle Nayahamui Rooney comes from Manus Province in PNG. Her mother, Nahau Rooney, was one of three women elected to the 109-member National Parliament of Papua New Guinea during the country's first post-independence general election in 1977 and the only woman elected in the subsequent election in 1982. Her father was Australian. He was murdered on Manus Island in 1990. She lived in Lorengau, the administrative centre of Manus Province, until 1984, when she was 12.[1] Rooney obtained a bachelor's degree in economics from the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra in 1994 and a master's in development economics from the University of Sussex in the UK in 1998.[2]
