Pepetua Latasi

Pepetua Election Latasi is a Tuvaluan civil servant who serves as the Director for Climate Change and Disaster Coordinator under the Office of the Prime Minister of Tuvalu.[1] Her position involves working with the climate change policy of Tuvalu and serving as Tuvalu's representative in climate change negotiation abroad.[2]

Latasi began her career in Tuvalu's Department of Environment, where she worked for ten years before becoming Director of Department of Climate Change and Disaster.[2] After temporarily taking a break from this work, she obtained an undergraduate degree in climate change policy and environment management in 2008. She later chaired the United Nations Least Developed Countries Expert Group, a twelve-member committee established by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change,[3] and then became a member of the Executive Committee on the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage,[4] of which she co-chairs with Shereen D'Souza of the United States.[5] At the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, she served as the Chief Negotiator for Tuvalu.[4]