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MOVERS AND SHAKERS

Tongan lawyer Tavake Barron Afeaki has been appointed as Tahiti Tourisme has appointed Jean-Marc Mocellin as CEO
the Privy Council’s new Lord Chancellor. Afeaki replaces New of Tahiti’s Destination Marketing Organisation. Mocellin is
Zealand lawyer Harry Waakens QC. Barron-Afeaki practices in currently CEO of Nouvelle Calédonie Tourisme, the DMO
New Zealand and Tonga, with experience in criminal defence, for New Caledonia. He has experience in the luxury hotel
sports law, civil/constitutional and land law, and as a sector in Africa, Thailand and Fiji, where he spent four years
Commissioner or legal counsel on the Royal Land Commission, managing the Shangri-La Fijian resort.
Electricity Commission, Uoleve Palace burning and the MV Fiji’s R.B. Patel Group has appointed Yogesh Karan and
Princess Ashika Ferry sinking.
Abilash Ram to its Board. Karan has also been appointed to
Alexandrya Herman has been appointed as Cook Islands Chair the board of directors. He is the Permanent Secretary
Seabed Minerals Commissioner. The lawyer will lead the to the Office of the Prime Minister, Sugar Industry and
Seabed Minerals Authority for the next three years. Herman Immigration and is a former high commissioner to India. Ram
was the Authority’s first legal officer before moving to the was recently appointed acting chief executive officer of Fijian
Crown Law Office in 2016. Holdings Ltd after his predecessor Mohammed Nouzab Fareed
was charged with indecent assault.
Vern Cotter is the new Fiji rugby coach. The New Zealander
will start with the Flying Fijians at the end of Montpellier’s Charlie Gilichibi is now CEO of Comrade Trustee Services
current season. Cotter has strong credentials. He led Ltd, a Defence Force Retirement Benefit Fund in Papua New
Scotland to the World Cup quarter-finals in 2015, helped the Guinea. Gilichibi was formerly Chief Officer Member Services
Canterbury Crusaders win consecutive Super Rugby titles in for Nasfund, where he spent over ten years. He has many
2005 and 2006, and also coached Clermont to victory in 2010. years’ experience across the superannuation sector.
Fego Ota Kiniafa has been confirmed as the new Managing US Ambassador to Solomon Islands Erin McKee is now
Director at PNG Ports. He has been acting in the position since at work. She says her first priority is to see increased
last April cooperation between the countries on law enforcement,
maritime order and cyber domains.
In FSM, Carlson D. Apis has been sworn in as Secretary
of the Department of Transportation, Communication, & Indonesia has appointed an Ambassador to the Pacific. He is
Infrastructure. Secretary Apis was formerly posted at the FSM Tantowi Yahya, who is already Indonesia's Ambassador to New
Embassy in China. Meanwhile the Honourable Dr. Livinson A. Zealand, Samoa and Tonga. In his expanded role, Yahya will
Taulung has been sworn in as Secretary of the Department of work to increase Indonesia’s political, economic and people-
Health & Social Affairs. Taulung was formerly in Kosrae. to-people links in the region.

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