List of Secretaries General of The Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat
Please Note: Dates may not be correct.
- Tuiloma Neroni Slade (Samoa) 20 August 2008 - present
- Feleti Teo (Tuvalu) (acting) 2 May 2008 – 13 October 2008
- Greg Urwin (Australia) 16 May 2004 – 2 May 2008 (resigned due to ill health)
- Noel Levi (Papua New Guinea) February 1998 – 16 January 2004
- Ieremia Tabai (Kiribati) January 1992 – January 1998
- Henry Naisali (Tuvalu) September 1988 – January 1992
Directors of the South Pacific Bureau for Economic Co-operation
- Henry Naisali (Tuvalu) January 1986 – September 1988
- Mahe Tupouniua (Tonga) January 1983 – January 1986
- John Sheppard (Australia) (acting) 1982 – January 1983
- Gabriel Gris (Papua New Guinea) 1980 – 1982 (died in office)
- Mahe Tupouniua (Tonga) November 1972 – 1980
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