Mr Nikunj Soni (Chair)
Nikunj Soni is the Board Chair of the Pacific Institute of Public Policy, which he founded in 2007. He has worked extensively on economic and public financial management issues across the Pacific since 1996, and has authored papers on a wide variety of topics ranging from revenue reforms, expenditure management, macroeconomic modelling to more general development papers on issues like drivers of change and governance reform. Nik has held a wide variety of senior advisory and in line positions in the region including as the Director General of the Ministry of Finance in Timor-Leste. He has an MPhil from Oxford, and outside of public policy is also the chair of the largest renewable energy NGO in Vanuatu. He is currently a senior treasury advisor to the Vanuatu Government.
Mr Odo Tevi
Mr Tevi is serving his second term as the Governor of the Reserve Bank of Vanuatu.
Mr Kalio Tavola
Mr Tavola served as Fiji’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and prior to that as Ambassador to Belgium (also accredited to France, Portugal, Spain, Luxembourg and Greece, as well as to UNESCO and the WTO).
Mr Afamasaga Toleafoa
Mr Toleafoa served for 20 years as a diplomat and then Member of Parliament in Samoa. He currently provides consulting services in public sector reform and governance and is a regular contributor to the regional media.
Dr Stephen Howes
Dr Howes is a Professorial Fellow at the Crawford School of Economics and Government at the Australian National University. Prior to that he was Chief Economist for AusAID has also worked as a Lead Economist at the World Bank. He spent most of 2008 working on the Garnaut Climate Change Review.
Mr Rick Houenipwela
Mr Houenipwela served three terms as Governor of the Central Bank of Solomon Islands (1993-2008) and currently serves as an advisor to the World Bank Executive in Washington.
