Namoliki Sualiki Neemia | |
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![]() Sualiki in 2017 | |
Minister for Home Affairs and Rural Development | |
In office 5 August 2013 –9 September 2019 | |
Prime Minister | Enele Sopoaga |
Preceded by | Pelenike Isaia |
Succeeded by | Katepu Laoi |
Minister for Education,Youth and Sport | |
In office 29 September 2010 –24 December 2010 | |
Prime Minister | Maatia Toafa |
Preceded by | Falesa Pitoi |
Succeeded by | Falesa Pitoi |
Member of the Tuvaluan Parliament for Nukulaelae | |
Assumed office 3 August 2006 | |
Preceded by | Bikenibeu Paeniu |
Personal details | |
Political 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 the 2003 New Year Honours he was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE), [11] and promoted to Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2016 New Year Honours,in both cases for public and community service. [12]