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Teuea Toatu

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Teuea Toatu
Toatu in 2011
7th Vice President of Kiribati
Assumed office
19 June 2019
PresidentTaneti Maamau
Preceded byKourabi Nenem
Minister for Finance & Economic Development
Assumed office
15 March 2016
Preceded byTom Murdoch
Member of the House of Assembly
Assumed office
7 January 2016
ConstituencyAbaiang
Personal details
NationalityI-Kiribati
Political partyTobwaan Kiribati Party
Alma materUniversity of the South Pacific
University of Strathclyde
Australian National University

Teuea Toatu is an I-Kiribati politician who is the current vice president and minister for Finance & Economic Development in the Cabinet of Kiribati.[1] He is 1 of 3 Members of the House of Assembly representing the constituency of Abaiang.[2] He was appointed vice-president (Kauoman-ni-Beretienti) on 19 June 2019.[3] He graduated with a BA in accounting and economics form the University of the South Pacific in 1980, and completed a certificate in computing at the University of East Anglia in 1984.[4] He subsequently completed his MSc at the University of Strathclyde and his PhD at the Australian National University.

References

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  1. ^ "Cabinet". Republic of Kiribati Presidential Web Portal. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
  2. ^ "New Kiribati cabinet ministers sworn in". Radio New Zealand. 16 March 2016. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
  3. ^ https://www.rnz.co.nz/article/43fae881-381c-4242-b91f-cdf17366db18 [dead link]
  4. ^ Howard Van Trease (1993). Atoll Politics: The Republic of Kiribati. Editorips@usp.ac.fj. pp. 377–. ISBN 978-0-9583300-0-8.