Fa'amoetauloa Ulaitino Faale Tumaali'i | |
Office: | Minister of Natural Resources and Environment |
Primeminister: | Tuila'epa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi |
Term Start: | 21 March 2011 |
Term End: | 19 March 2016 |
Predecessor: | Faumuina Tiatia Liuga |
Successor: | Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa |
Constituency Mp5: | Gaga'emauga No. 3 |
Parliament5: | Samoan |
Term Start5: | 4 March 2011 |
Term End5: | 4 March 2016 |
Predecessor5: | Galuvao Viliamu Sepulona |
Successor5: | Nafoitoa Talaimanu Keti |
Party: | Human Rights Protection Party |
Fa'amoetauloa Lealaiauloto Taito Dr. Faale Tumaali'i (~1949 - 16 September 2019)[1] was a Samoan politician and Cabinet Minister. He were a member of the Human Rights Protection Party.
Tumaali'i studied for a bachelor's degree in Fiji, and then for a master's degree and PhD at the University of New South Wales.[1] He worked for the Ministry of Agriculture, the New South Wales Agricultural Research Institute, the Australian Defence Science and Technology Organisation, as a lecturer at the University of Newcastle in Australia.[1] After returning to Samoa in 2006 he became director of the Science Research Organisation of Samoa.[1]
He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Samoa at the 2011 Samoan general election, and appointed Minister of Natural Resources and Environment.[2] He lost his seat in the 2016 election.[3]