Ilaïsaane Lauouvéa (born 1970) is a

New Caledonia New Caledonia ( ; ) is a group of islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean, southwest of Vanuatu and east of Australia. Located from Metropolitan France, it forms a Overseas France#Sui generis collectivity, ''sui generis'' collectivity of t ...

n politician, who from 2009 to 2014 was an elected member of the

Congress of New Caledonia The Congress of New Caledonia (), a "territorial congress" (''congrès territorial'' or ''congrès du territoire''), is the legislature of New Caledonia. The congress is headquartered at 1 Boulevard Vauban in downtown Noumea. Local media in Ne ...

representing the

Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front The Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (, FLNKS) is a pro-independence alliance of political parties in New Caledonia. It was founded in 1984 at a congress of various political parties. Its supporters are mostly from the Kanak indig ...

Education

Lauouvéa was born in 1970 in

Nouméa Nouméa () is the capital and largest city of the French Sui generis collectivity, special collectivity of New Caledonia and is also the largest Francophone city in Oceania. It is situated on a peninsula in the south of New Caledonia's main i ...

. Her family originally came from Wallis, part of the French collectivity of

Wallis and Futuna Wallis and Futuna, officially the Territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands (), is a French island territorial collectivity, collectivity in the Oceania, South Pacific, situated between Tuvalu to the northwest, Fiji to the southwest, Tonga t ...

. She studied law at the French Pacific University at its New Caledonia centre. She then was awarded an MA in Political Science from Paris X University. In 2017 she graduated with a second MA in Public Policy the

Australian National University The Australian National University (ANU) is a public university, public research university and member of the Group of Eight (Australian universities), Group of Eight, located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton, A ...

Career

From 2001 to 2007 she was elected to the municipal council of Mont-Dore. In 2009 she represented New Caledonia at the United Nations General Assembly, arguing for self-determination for the collectivity, as well as citing wealth inequality as the most important social issue. From 2009 to 2014 she was elected to the Assembly of the South Province and to the

. From 2013 to 2014 she was a President of the Standing Committee of Congress. She is a member of the

. In 2017 she was a member of Maison de la Mélanésie and on the board of directors on the Institute of the Pacific at the Australian National University. In 2021 she worked as a senior advisor in the New Caledonia government's Regional Cooperation and External Relations Department.

References

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