Haruo Willter Explained

Haruo Ngiraked Willter
Office1:Minister of Administration of Palau
President1:Haruo Remeliik
Alfonso Oiterong
Predecessor1:Position established
Successor1:Franz Reksid
Termstart1:1981
Termend1:October 1985

Haruo Ngiraked Willter is a Palauan civil servant and politician, and former Minister of Administration of Palau responsible for public finances.[1]

Biography

Willter served in multiple positions throughout the decades including several years in Koror as deputy director of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (TTPI) office. He began his employment with the TTPI government in Guam in 1958, and spent years in finance and budget positions after the TTPI moved to Saipan.[2]

Willter was a delegate in the first 1979 Palauan constitutional convention,[3] [4] and also in the second 2005 constitutional convention.

He was Minister of Administration in the government of Palau in the early 1980s, from to 1981 to October 1985 during the presidencies of Haruo Remeliik and Alfonso Oiterong. Willter run as a candidate for Vice President of Palau in the 1980 elections and the 1985 elections elections. He was described to have a narrow political base, and was not elected. He then served as a personal envoy of President Lazarus Salii.

From 1990 to 2008, he worked with the Office of Insular Affairs in Palau, and oversaw special projects in Palau, Federated States of Micronesia and Marshall Islands. Willter later joined the administration of Johnson Toribiong.

Willter was forty-eight years old in 1985,[5] so he was born in 1930s.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Leibowitz . Arnold . Embattled Island: Palau's Struggle for Independence . Greenwood Publishing Group . en . 16 February 1996.
  2. Web site: OIA Welcome President Toribion and Recognizes Fifty Years of Service by Haruo Willter . Office of Insular Affairs . 13 March 2009.
  3. Web site: Staff . Island Times . Seven surviving framers of Palau's constitution meet to commemorate 40th anniversary of drafting constitution . Island Times . 29 January 2019.
  4. Web site: Shuster . Donald . Islands of Change in Palau: Church, School, and Elected Government 1891-1981 . University of Hawaii Library.
  5. Web site: Shuster . Donald . ELECTIONS, COMPACT, AND ASSASSINATION IN THE REPUBLIC OF PALAU . University of Guam.