Mona Ainu'u | |
Office: | Minister of Natural Resources |
Primeminister: | Dalton Tagelagi |
Term Start: | 11 June 2020 |
Predecessor: | Dalton Tagelagi |
Office2: | Member Assisting the Minister for Natural Resources |
Minister2: | Dalton Tagelagi |
Term Start2: | May 2017 |
Term End2: | 11 June 2020 |
Primeminister2: | Toke Talagi |
Predecessor2: | Halene Magatogia |
Constituency Mp5: | Tuapa |
Term Start5: | 6 May 2017 |
Predecessor5: | Fisa Igilisi Pihigia |
Party: | None |
Nationality: | Niuean |
Occupation: | Journalist Politician |
Mona Ainuu is a Niuean politician and Cabinet Minister.
Prior to entering politics, Ainuu was a journalist with the Broadcasting Corporation of Niue and a Public Relations and Media Officer with the Niuean government.[1] [2] She was also the president of the Niue Island Volleyball Association and a founding member of the Pacific Alliance of Development Journalists.[3] [4]
Ainu'u was first elected to the Niue Assembly in the 2017 Niuean general election, representing the Tuapa constituency.[5] She was subsequently appointed Member Assisting the Minister for Natural Resources.[6] On 11 June Ainu'u was appointed Minister of Natural Resources in the Cabinet of Dalton Tagelagi.[7]
She was re-elected unopposed at the 2023 election,[8] and reappointed to Tagelagi's cabinet holding the same portfolios.[9] [10]