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Ilaïsaane Lauouvéa
Member of the Congress of New Caledonia
Personal details
BornTemplate:April 7
Nouméa
Political partyKanak and Socialist National Liberation Front

Ilaïsaane Lauouvéa (born April 7th, 1970) is a New Caledonian politician, who from 2009 to 2014 was an elected member of the Congress of New Caledonia representing the Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front.

Education[edit]

Lauouvéa was born in 1970 in Nouméa.[1] Her family originally came from Wallis, part of the French collectivity of Wallis and Futuna.[2] She studied law at the French Pacific University at its New Caledonia centre.[1] She then was awarded an MA in Political Science from Paris X University.[1] In 2017 she graduated with a second MA in Public Policy the Australian National University.[1]

Career[edit]

From 2001 to 2007 she was elected to the municipal council of Mont-Dore.[1] 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.[3]

From 2009 to 2014 she was elected to the Assembly of the South Province and to the Congress of New Caledonia.[1] From 2013 to 2014 she was a President of the Standing Committee of Congress.[1] She is a member of the Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front.[4] 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.[5] In 2021 she worked as a senior advisor in the New Caledonia government's Regional Cooperation and External Relations Department.[6]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Direction de la Maison de la Mélanésie Paul de Deckker". 2020-10-23. Archived from the original on 2020-10-23. Retrieved 2021-11-07.
  2. ^ "Dieu et le pays | LNC.nc | Les Nouvelles Calédoniennes, le Journal de Nouvelle Calédonie". 2021-11-07. Archived from the original on 2021-11-07. Retrieved 2021-11-07.
  3. ^ "Fourth Committee Hears from Petitioners on Questions of New Caledonia, United States Virgin Islands, Western Sahara, as Decolonization Debate Continues | Meetings Coverage and Press Releases". 2021-11-07. Archived from the original on 2021-11-07. Retrieved 2021-11-07.
  4. ^ Chauchat, Mathias (2011). Les institutions en Nouvelle Calédonie: Institutions politiques et administratives (in French). ScérÉn-CDP NOUVELLE-CALÉDONIE. ISBN 978-2-35036-116-1.
  5. ^ Inégalités sociales et décolonisation (PDF) (in French). Centre culturel Tjibaou, Nouméa. 2017.
  6. ^ "Uncovering nature's potential for managing climate change – a priority in the Pacific Islands | The Pacific Community". 2021-11-07. Archived from the original on 2021-11-07. Retrieved 2021-11-07.

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