Lopeti Senituli

Lopeti Senituli is a Law Practitioner in Tonga and former Political Advisor to two Tongan Prime Ministers, Dr. Fred Vaka’uta Sevele and Samiuela ‘Akilisi Pohiva. He was founding Director of the office of the Tonga Human Rights and Democracy Movement (2000–2003). Prior to that, he was Director of the Pacific Concerns Resource Centre Inc, the secretariat of the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Movement (NFIP), based in Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand (1987–1993) and Suva, Fiji (1993–2000). He has also served the Tongan government in various capacities including CEO of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (2012–2015). He served as representative of the Pacific Conference of Churches (PCC) to the Churches Commission on International Affairs of the World Council of Churches (WCC-CCIA) in Geneva (1999–2006). He was appointed as the representative from the Polynesia region to the Pacific Islands Forum – Specialist Sub-Committee on Regionalism (PIF-SSCR) (2015–2018) and has been a member of the International Advisory Committee of the Diplomacy Training Program (DTP) of the University of New South Wales-Law School since 1994. He is a former President of the Tonga Law Society.