by info@innovahub.org | Aug 28, 2025 | National Women MPs, Vanuatu
Bio The late Mrs Crowby worked in government and most importantly as a former and first Vanuatu woman voted into parliament in 1988 to 1991 under the Union of Moderates Party (UMP). Late Mrs. Crowby was born on the island of Ifira 23 August 1940. She attended school...
by info@innovahub.org | Aug 28, 2025 | National Women MPs, Vanuatu
Bio Biographical DataHon Eta Rory is currently a member of the Parliamentary Committee on Economic Policy and the Parliamentary Committee on Social Policy. She was previously the Minister of Agriculture and was also formerly the State Minister of Agriculture &...
by info@innovahub.org | Aug 28, 2025 | National Women MPs, Vanuatu
Bio In 2004, Tasso was elected to Vanuatu’s parliament for the Epi constituency. The only other woman to be elected that year to the parliament of 52 members, Isabelle Donald, also represented Epi, having first been elected in 2002. Their achievement was despite much...
by info@innovahub.org | Aug 28, 2025 | National Women MPs, Vanuatu
Bio In 2002, Hon Isabelle Donald was elected to the National Parliament and became the third woman ever to be elected into the Vanuatu legislature. Hon Donald served two elected terms, from 2002-2005 and 2005-2008.From 2002-04, she was Deputy Parliamentary Speaker....
by info@innovahub.org | Aug 28, 2025 | National Women MPs, Vanuatu
Bio Motarilavoa Hilda Lini is a chief of the Turaga nation of Pentecost Island in Vanuatu. Following Vanuatu’s 1980 independence, she became the first woman elected to Parliament, in 1987. From 1991-95, Hon Lini was Minister of Rural Water Supply and Health. In 1993...
by info@innovahub.org | Aug 28, 2025 | National Women MPs, Vanuatu
Bio Gloria Julia King hails from Mele, a Ni-Vanuatu islet. She has a background in football, having played for the Vanuatu women’s national team in the 2003 South Pacific Games. Transitioning to coaching and management, King later led the Vanuatuan delegation at...