Taniela B. Wakolo
Taniela Biu Wakolo (born June 25, 1967) is a General Authority Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He is the only Fijian to have been a general authority in the Church to date.
Wakolo was born in Lomaloma, Lau, Fiji.
Wakolo studied management and public administration at the University of the South Pacific. He has a master's degree in management from the University of the Sunshine Coast.
Wakolo originally worked as a police officer in Fiji. Later he worked for the Church, managing the office in Fiji overseeing the Church's business affairs and temporal welfare programs in that country.
Wakolo's wife was a long-time Church member. He joined the LDS Church in 1994 when they had been married for about 7 years.
Among other positions in the LDS Church Wakolo has served as a seminary teacher, institute teacher, branch president, member of a high council, counselor in a bishopric, counselor in a stake presidency, stake president of the Nausori Fiji Stake, Area Seventy and as president of the Arkansas Little Rock Mission from 2014-2017.
In 1987 he married Anita Herberta Moimoi. They are the parents of three children.