Pacific Leader Of The Year
p. 16 · Read in the full issue
For the first time, the readers of Pacific Islands Monthly have had the opportunity to make their own choice of the person who has done most to express the values of today's Pacific. The leader they have chosen despite his relative inexperience as a national leader is Papua New Guinea s Prime Minister. The overwhelming majority of nominations for Mr Namaliu spoke of his personal qualities: his fierce intelligence, his resolve to serve his country rather than have his country serve his ambitions; and his pragmatic and farsighted denial of political point-scoring in favour of gathering around him a team that is shaping policies to guide PNG into its 21st Century role as the first nation of Oceania. Frank Senge profiles the man and his career.