Ms. Emele Duituturaga
Former Executive Director, Pacific Islands Association of Non Governmental Organisations (PIANGO)
Emele Duituturaga, a Fijian national, is the Executive Director of the Pacific Islands Association of Non-Governmental Organisations (PIANGO), a position she has held since June 2009. In this role, she has been instrumental in PIANGO's strong positioning as a regional and global civil society development actor and has spoken at numerous high level meetings raising the profile of the Pacific’s concerns such as climate change, localization of humanitarian aid, gender equality, development effectiveness and implementation of Agenda 2030 and the SDGs.
Prior to joining PIANGO Emele was a Research Associate at Fiji’s University of the South Pacific (2017-20180 and Fiji Government’s CEO for the Ministry of Women, Social Welfare, Poverty Alleviation and Housing (2014-2017). She has worked in the development sector for over 2 decades in most Pacific Islands countries working and living in NZ, New Caledonia, PNG, Solomon Islands and Fiji. Previously, she worked as the Project Manager for UNFPA; was head of the Women’s Bureau with the SPC based in Noumea; a ADB long term adviser in PNG; a short-term gender adviser with RAMSI in the Solomon Islands. She started her career as a social worker, policy adviser, housing manager and university lecturer in NZ cenral and local government.
She has a Bachelor in Social Work, a Postgraduate Diploma in Corporate Management and a Masters in Business Administration