Namoliki Sualiki
Tuvaluan politician
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Namoliki Sualiki Neemia is a Tuvaluan politician.
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Namoliki Sualiki Neemia | |
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Sualiki in 2017 | |
| Minister for Home Affairs and Rural Development | |
| In office 5 August 2013 – 9 September 2019 | |
| Prime Minister | Enele Sopoaga |
| Preceded by | Pelenike Isaia |
| Succeeded by | Katepu Laoi |
| Minister for Education, Youth and Sport | |
| In office 29 September 2010 – 24 December 2010 | |
| Prime Minister | Maatia Toafa |
| Preceded by | Falesa Pitoi |
| Succeeded by | Falesa Pitoi |
| Member of the Tuvaluan Parliament for Nukulaelae | |
| Assumed office 3 August 2006 | |
| Preceded by | Bikenibeu Paeniu |
| Personal details | |
| Party | Independent |
Education and career as a teacher
He obtained a Master of Education degree at James Cook University in Queensland, Australia, in 1994. His thesis, entitled "Learning for life: up to and beyond the year 2000", explored the social aspects of education and education planning in Tuvalu.[1] He became a teacher.[2] In 2003, he published a booklet entitled Tuvalu Technical Vocational Education and Training, with the government of Tuvalu and NZAID.[3]
Political career
In 2006, he went into politics, and was elected to Parliament as MP for Nukulaelae.[4] He was re-elected in the 2010 general election,[5] and Prime Minister Maatia Toafa appointed him Minister for Education, Youth and Sport.[2] He lost office just three months later, when Toafa's government was brought down by a motion of no confidence.[6]
Namoliki Sualiki was appointed Minister for Home Affairs and Rural Development on 5 August 2013;[7] and served as the minister during the Sopoaga Ministry. He was re-elected in the 2019 general election.[8]
No candidates contested the sitting MPs Seve Paeniu and Namoliki Sualiki in the 2024 general election, so they were automatically returned to parliament.[9][10]
Honours
In the 2003 New Year Honours he was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE),[11] and promoted to Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2016 New Year Honours, in both cases for public and community service.[12]