Namoliki Sualiki Neemia | |
Honorific-Suffix: | MP, MBE & OBE |
Office: | Minister for Home Affairs and Rural Development |
Primeminister: | Enele Sopoaga |
Term Start: | 5 August 2013 |
Term End: | 9 September 2019 |
Predecessor: | Pelenike Isaia |
Successor: | Katepu Laoi |
Office2: | Minister for Education, Youth and Sport |
Primeminister2: | Maatia Toafa |
Term Start2: | 29 September 2010 |
Term End2: | 24 December 2010 |
Predecessor2: | Falesa Pitoi |
Successor2: | Falesa Pitoi |
Constituency Mp3: | Nukulaelae |
Parliament3: | Tuvaluan |
Predecessor3: | Bikenibeu Paeniu |
Term Start3: | 3 August 2006 |
Party: | Independent |
Namoliki Sualiki Neemia, &, generally referred to as Namoliki Sualiki, is a Tuvaluan politician.
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]
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]
In 2003 he was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for public and community service.[11]
He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2016 New Year Honours.