Kitiseni Lopati Explained

Kitiseni Lopati
Honorific-Suffix:MP
Office1:Minister of Finance
Term Start1:September 1988
Term End1:16 October 1989
Primeminister1:Tomasi Puapua
Predecessor1:Henry Naisali
Successor1:Alesana Seluka
Parliament4:Tuvaluan
Term Start4:12 September 1985
Term End4:16 October 1989
Party:Independent

Kitiseni Lopati was a Tuvaluan politician who served as the minister of natural resources and commerce,[1] then as the minister of finance and commerce in the cabinet of prime minister Tomasi Puapua in his second term as prime minister of Tuvalu.[2] In September 1988, Lopati was appointed at the minister of finance and commerce to replaced Henry Naisali after he resigned his seat to take up the position of Secretary General of the South Pacific Forum.[2] Lopati was not returned to parliament in the 1989 Tuvaluan general election.[3]

He had earlier served as the Secretary of the Communications and Transport Department, and in 1979 he was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE).[4]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: 1987 . The Statesman's Yearbook 1986-87: The Politics, Cultures and Economies of the World. Palgrave Macmillan .
  2. Goldsmith, Michael . The Colonial and Postcolonial Roots of Ethnonationalism in Tuvalu . Journal of the Polynesian Society . 121. 2012 . 2. 129–150. 10.15286/jps.121.2.129-150. free .
  3. Web site: McManus. Diana . 59(2) Pacific Islands Monthly . A new leadership. 1 November 1989. 25 September 2021.
  4. Tuvalu: