Teresa is a citizen of Fiji as well as Tuvalu, and lives in Funafuti. She is fluent in English, Fijian and Tuvaluan. Teresa completed a law degree and a post-graduated diploma in business administration at the University of the South Pacific. More recently she has returned from completing a Masters of Law and Development from the University of Melbourne.
Her work experience includes stints at the Tuvaluan High Commission in Suva; the Ministry of Health and the Office of the Attorney General for the Government of Tuvalu; and as Director of the Tuvalu Association of NGOs and then with the Tuvalu Family Health Association. She is now Programme Officer for Engineers without Borders (New Zealand) in Tuvalu and does short-term consultancy assignments.
Teresa is ambitious for the organisations that she works with, seeking to increase their professionalism, strengthen capacity and capability, extend service delivery - mostly achieved by caring about and investing in her colleagues. Teresa is comfortable dealing with a range of stakeholders, bringing gender and other cultural perspectives to her work and is well organised and able to juggle competing priorities and demands on her busy time.
Her work with Future Partners has included supporting our work in Tuvalu; on two occasions Teresa has provided invaluable local input into assignments. For example, the World Bank’s Implementation Completion and Results (ICR) Report on the Pacific Regional Oceanscape Programme (PROP) in 2022. In 2024 she worked as the Tuvalu Coordinator for the Pacific Community (SPC)’s civil registration and vital statistics programme.
In spare time, Teresa can be found planning coral restoration work, at church, being a mum to three children and supporting family activities.
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