Pepetua Election Latasi is a Tuvaluan civil servant. She is the Director for Climate Change and Disaster Coordinator under the Office of the Prime Minister of Tuvalu.[1] Her position involves working with the climate change policy of Tuvalu and serving as the country's representative in climate change negotiation abroad.[2]
Latasi began her career in Tuvalu's Department of Environment, where she worked for ten years before becoming Director of Department of Climate Change and Disaster. After temporarily taking a break from this work, she obtained an undergraduate degree in climate change policy and environment management in 2008. She later chaired the United Nations Least Developed Countries Expert Group, a twelve-member committee established by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change,[3] and co-chaired the Executive Committee on the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage[4] with Shereen D'Souza of the United States.[5] At the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, she served as the Chief Negotiator for Tuvalu.