Fa'amoetauloa Lealaiauloto Taito Dr. Faale Tumaali'i (~1949 - 16 September 2019) was a

Samoa Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa; sm, Sāmoa, and until 1997 known as Western Samoa, is a Polynesian island country consisting of two main islands (Savai'i and Upolu); two smaller, inhabited islands (Manono Island, Manono an ...

n politician and

Cabinet Minister A minister is a politician who heads a ministry, making and implementing decisions on policies in conjunction with the other ministers. In some jurisdictions the head of government is also a minister and is designated the ‘prime minister’, � ...

. He were a member of the

Human Rights Protection Party The Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP, sm, Vaega Faaupufai e Puipuia Aia Tatau a Tagata) is a Samoan political party. It was founded in 1982 and dominated Samoan party politics for decades thereafter, leading every government until their defea ...

. Tumaali'i studied for a bachelor's degree in Fiji, and then for a master's degree and PhD at the

University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales (UNSW), also known as UNSW Sydney, is a public research university based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is one of the founding members of Group of Eight, a coalition of Australian research-intensive ...

. He worked for the Ministry of Agriculture, the New South Wales Agricultural Research Institute, the Australian Defence Science and Technology Organisation, as a lecturer at the University of Newcastle in Australia. After returning to Samoa in 2006 he became director of the Science Research Organisation of Samoa. He was elected to the

Legislative Assembly of Samoa The Legislative Assembly ( sm, Fono Aoao Faitulafono a Samoa), also known as the Parliament of Samoa ( sm, Palemene o Samoa), is the national legislature of Samoa, seated at Apia, where the country's central administration is situated. Samoan P ...

at the

2011 Samoan general election General elections were held in Samoa on 4 March 2011, to determine the composition of the 15th Parliament. Two parties contested the election, the ruling Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP), which had been in power for most of the time since ...

, and appointed Minister of Natural Resources and Environment. He lost his seat in the 2016 election.

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Members of the Legislative Assembly of Samoa Human Rights Protection Party politicians Government ministers of Samoa University of New South Wales alumni 2019 deaths Year of birth uncertain {{Samoa-politician-stub