43 Notable alumni of
University of Canberra
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The University of Canberra is 1472nd in the world, 30th in Oceania, and 24th in Australia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 43 notable alumni from the University of Canberra sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Lotay Tshering
- Years
- 1969-.. (age 55)
- Occupations
- physiciansurgeonpolitician
- Biography
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Lotay Tshering is a Bhutanese politician and surgeon who was the prime minister of Bhutan, in office from 7 November 2018 to 1 November 2023. He has also been the president of Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa since 14 May 2018.
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Garth Nix
- Occupations
- writernovelistauthorchildren's writerscience fiction writer
- Biography
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Garth Richard Nix is an Australian writer who specialises in children's and young adult fantasy novels, notably the Old Kingdom, Seventh Tower and Keys to the Kingdom series. He has frequently been asked if his name is a pseudonym, to which he has responded, "I guess people ask me because it sounds like the perfect name for a writer of fantasy. However, it is my real name."
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George Gregan
- Occupations
- rugby union playerentrepreneur
- Biography
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George Musarurwa Gregan AM is a retired Australian rugby union player, and is currently Australia's most capped international player.
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Wil Anderson
- Occupations
- television presenter
- Biography
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William James Anderson is an Australian comedian, writer, presenter, and podcaster.
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Rosi Braidotti
- Occupations
- women's rights activistuniversity teacherphilosopher
- Biography
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Rosi Braidotti is a contemporary philosopher and feminist theoretician. Born in Italy, she studied in Australia and France and works in the Netherlands. Braidotti is currently Distinguished University Professor Emerita at Utrecht University, where she has taught since 1988. She was professor and the founding director of Utrecht University's women's studies programme (1988-2005) and founding director of the Centre for the Humanities (2007-2016). She has been awarded honorary degrees from Helsinki (2007) and Linkoping (2013); she is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA) since 2009, and a Member of the Academia Europaea (MAE) since 2014. Her main publications include Nomadic Subjects (2011) and Nomadic Theory (2011), both with Columbia University Press, The Posthuman (2013), Posthuman Knowledge (2019), and Posthuman Feminism (2022) with Polity Press. In 2016, she co-edited Conflicting Humanities with Paul Gilroy, and The Posthuman Glossary in 2018 with Maria Hlavajova, both with Bloomsbury Academic.
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Abdulla Shahid
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Abdulla Shahid is a Maldivian politician who served as President of the 76th United Nations General Assembly between 2021 and 2022. Shahid is the first Maldivian politician to hold that post. He had served as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Maldives from 2018 to 2023.
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Linda Reynolds
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Linda Karen Reynolds is an Australian politician. She is a member of the Liberal Party and has served as a Senator for Western Australia since 2014. She held senior ministerial office as a cabinet minister in the Morrison government from 2019 to 2022.
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Fiona Patten
- Occupations
- politicianbusinessperson
- Biography
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Fiona Heather Patten is an Australian politician. She is the leader of Reason Australia (also known as the Reason Party) and was a member of the Victorian Legislative Council between 2014 and 2022, representing the Northern Metropolitan Region until she lost her seat at the 2022 state election.
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Morris Gleitzman
- Occupations
- children's writerwriter
- Biography
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Morris Gleitzman is an British-born Australian author of children's and young adult fiction. He has gained recognition for sparking an interest in AIDS in his controversial novel Two Weeks with the Queen (1990).
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Ellie Cole
- Occupations
- swimmer
- Biography
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Ellie Victoria Cole, is an Australian retired Paralympic swimmer and wheelchair basketball player. After having her leg amputated due to cancer, she trained in swimming as part of her rehabilitation program and progressed more rapidly than instructors had predicted. She began competitive swimming in 2003 and first competed internationally at the 2006 IPC Swimming World Championships, where she won a silver medal. Since then, she has won medals in the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, the Commonwealth Games, the Paralympic Games, the IPC Swimming World Championships, and various national championships. Following the 2012 London Paralympics, where she won four gold and two bronze medals, Cole underwent two shoulder reconstructions and made a successful return to swimming at the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships, winning five medals, including three golds. She subsequently represented Australia at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Paralympics, the 2018 Commonwealth Games, and the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. In claiming her seventeenth Paralympic medal in Tokyo, Cole became Australia's most decorated female Paralympian with six gold, five silver and six bronze medals from four Paralympic Games.
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Kelsey-Lee Barber
- Occupations
- javelin thrower
- Biography
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Kelsey-Lee Barber is an Australian track and field athlete who competes in the javelin throw. She won gold at the 2019 World Championships, and her personal best of 67.70 m ranks her 13th in the overall list.
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Vivek Wadhwa
- Enrolled in the University of Canberra
- In 1974 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in computer science
- Occupations
- research fellowwritercolumnistentrepreneur
- Biography
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Vivek Wadhwa is an Indian-American technology entrepreneur and academic. He is Distinguished Fellow & Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon's School of Engineering at Silicon Valley and Distinguished Fellow at the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School. He is also author of books Your Happiness Was Hacked: Why Tech Is Winning the Battle to Control Your Brain—and How to Fight Back, Driver in the Driverless Car, Innovating Women: The Changing Face of Technology, and Immigrant Exodus.
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Zed Seselja
- Occupations
- politiciancivil servant
- Biography
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Zdenko Matthew "Zed" Seselja is an Australian politician who was a Senator for the Australian Capital Territory from 2013 to 2022, representing the Liberal Party. He was the Minister for International Development and the Pacific in the Morrison government from December 2020 to May 2022, and previously served as an assistant minister in the Morrison and Turnbull governments since 2016.
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Simon Overland
- Occupations
- Australian rules football playermanagerpolice officer
- Biography
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Simon James Overland is the former Chief Executive Officer at the City of Whittlesea and a former Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police in Australia. He previously worked with the Australian Federal Police and then with Victoria Police focusing on Melbourne's gangland wars. On 2 March 2009 he was named by the Premier, John Brumby, as Victoria Police Chief Commissioner. He resigned from this position on 16 June 2011 after intense public pressure from critics who questioned his performance. In July 2011, he was appointed the chair of the Board of Management of the Tasmania University Union and was responsible for overseeing the direction of the student union.
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Justin Harrison
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Justin Harrison, born 20 April 1974 in Sydney, is a former Australian international rugby union player, who played lock forward and is currently the head of the Australian Rugby Union Players Association
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Natasha Fyles
- Occupations
- politicianswimming coachteacher
- Biography
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Natasha Kate Fyles is an Australian politician and former teacher who served as the 12th Chief Minister of the Northern Territory and Minister for Health. She was the leader of the Northern Territory branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from May 2022 until her resignation in December 2023. She is a member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the division of Nightcliff, a position she has held since August 2012. She previously served as 22nd attorney-general of the Northern Territory and the territory’s minister for Justice from 2016 to 2020.
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Michael Noonan
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Vice Admiral Michael Joseph Noonan, is a retired senior officer of the Royal Australian Navy, who served as Chief of Navy from 6 July 2018 to 6 July 2022. He previously served as Commander Border Protection Command from 2013 to 2015 and Deputy Chief of Navy from 2016 to 2018.
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Nathan Deakes
- Occupations
- athletics competitor
- Biography
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Nathan Deakes is an Australian former race walker. Deakes trained with the Australian Institute of Sport.
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Chris Crewther
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Christopher John Crewther is an Australian politician. He was a Liberal Party of Australia member of the Australian House of Representatives from 2016 to 2019 before being elected to the Victorian State Parliament, representing the division of Mornington in 2022.
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Kristy McBain
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kristy Louise McBain is an Australian politician. She currently represents the division of Eden-Monaro, and is the Minister for Regional Development, Local Government and Territories.
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Peter Hendy
- Occupations
- political adviserpoliticianeconomist
- Biography
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Peter William Hendy is a former Australian politician. He was the Liberal member representing the Australian House of Representatives seat of Eden-Monaro in New South Wales from 2013 to 2016. Hendy served as Assistant Minister for Productivity in the First Turnbull Ministry between September 2015 and February 2016; and as Assistant Cabinet Secretary and Assistant Minister to the Minister for Finance from February 2016. Hendy lost his seat in the 2016 federal election to Labor candidate Mike Kelly.
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Daniel McDaniel
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Major General Daniel Francis McDaniel, DSC, AM, DSM is a retired senior officer of the Australian Army. He served as the acting Special Operations Commander Australia from September 2013 to December 2014, after Major General Gus Gilmore was reassigned. He was seconded to the United States Army Pacific as Deputy Commanding General – North from January 2019 to January 2022.
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Christopher J. Mahoney
- Enrolled in the University of Canberra
- Graduated with master's degree in management
- Occupations
- military leader
- Biography
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Christopher J. Mahoney is a United States Marine Corps general who serves as the assistant commandant of the Marine Corps. He previously served as the deputy commandant for programs and resources from 2021 to 2023.
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Tandi Dorji
- Years
- 1968-.. (age 56)
- Occupations
- physicianpolitician
- Biography
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Tandi Dorji is a Bhutanese politician who served as Foreign Minister for Bhutan from November 2018 to 2024. He has been a member of the National Assembly of Bhutan, since October 2018.
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Jeremy Hanson
- Occupations
- military officerpolitician
- Biography
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Jeremy David Hanson, CSC, MLA is a former Australian Army officer and is an Australian politician with the Liberal Party, elected to the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly as one of seven MLAs for the Molonglo electorate at the 2008 election. He was the Opposition Leader in the ACT, as well as Shadow Minister for Health, Police, Corrections and Indigenous Affairs, between February 2013 and October 2016. In 2016, following a redistricting of the ACT's electorates and an expansion in size of the Legislative Assembly, he was elected as one of five MLAs for the new electorate of Murrumbidgee.
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Simon Corbell
- Years
- 1970-.. (age 54)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Simon Corbell is a former Australian politician and Deputy Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory. He was also Attorney-General, Minister for Health, Minister for the Environment and Minister for the Capital Metro.
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Rosalie Woodruff
- Years
- 1960s
- Occupations
- politicianepidemiologist
- Biography
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Rosalie Ellen Woodruff is an Australian politician and current leader of the Tasmanian Greens. She has represented Franklin in the Tasmanian House of Assembly since 17 August 2015, when she was elected in a countback to replace Nick McKim.
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Elizabeth Grant
- Occupations
- architectanthropologist
- Biography
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Elizabeth Grant CF was an Australian architectural anthropologist, criminologist and academic working in the field of Indigenous Architecture. She was a Churchill Fellow and held academic positions at The University of Adelaide, as Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at RMIT University's RMIT School of Architecture and Design, Adjunct Professor at the University of Canberra and the University of Queensland. She researched, wrote, and was an activist focused on architecture and design with Indigenous peoples as architectural practice and a social movement, and the observance of human rights in institutional architecture (in particular reforms to prison, custodial and court architecture). Her expertise in Indigenous housing and homelessness, design for Indigenous peoples living with disability, and indigenising public places and spaces made her a regular guest on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Radio National and ABC Local Radio. She wrote and reviewed architectural projects for architectural magazines such as Architecture Australia, the journal of the Australian Institute of Architects, and the Australian Design Review.
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Scott Fava
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Scott Fava is an Australian retired rugby union footballer.
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Susan Coyle
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Major General Susan May Coyle, AM, CSC, DSM is a senior officer in the Australian Army. She joined the army as a reservist in 1987 and, following training at the Australian Defence Force Academy, was commissioned into the Royal Australian Corps of Signals in 1992. She has commanded the 104th Signal Squadron (2003–04), 17th Signal Regiment (2009–10), Task Group Afghanistan (2015) and the 6th Combat Support Brigade (2017–19), and has deployed on operations to East Timor, the Solomon Islands and Afghanistan. She was appointed Commander Joint Task Force 633, with responsibility for all Australian operations in the Middle East, from January to November 2020. She was the first woman to command the task force, which had oversight for 1,200 personnel under Operation Accordion. Coyle was Head Information Warfare from January 2021 to November 2022, when she was appointed Commander Forces Command.
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Jenny Aitchison
- Born in
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Australia - Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jennifer Kathleen Aitchison is an Australian politician in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as member for Maitland for the Labor Party at the 2015 New South Wales state election. She has served as the Minister for Regional Transport and Roads in the Minns ministry since 2023.
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Betty Kitchener
- Occupations
- educator
- Biography
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Betty Ann Kitchener is an Australian mental health educator who co-founded Mental health first aid training.
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Tara Cheyne
- Occupations
- politiciancivil servant
- Biography
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Tara Maree Cheyne is an elected Member for the Ginninderra electorate in the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly as of 26 October 2016.
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Annabelle Lindsay
- Years
- 1998-.. (age 26)
- Occupations
- wheelchair basketball player
- Biography
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Annabelle Lindsay is a 4.5 point Australian wheelchair basketball player. She made her international debut with the Australian women's national wheelchair basketball team (the Gliders) at the Osaka Cup in February 2017. In May 2019, she was part of the U25 National team (the Devils) that won silver at the 2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Suphanburi, Thailand.
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Travis Passier
- Occupations
- volleyball player
- Biography
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Travis Passier is an Australian volleyball player. He competed for Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Passier is a 6’10" middle blocker for the Australia men's national volleyball team. His nicknames are T-rannosaurus Pas, Trang pak, and Pasinator, and he speaks Italian and English.
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Wendy Duncan
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Wendy Maxine Duncan is an Australian politician who was a National Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 2013 to 2017, representing the seat of Kalgoorlie. She was previously a member of the Legislative Council, representing the Agricultural Region from 2008 to 2009 and the Mining and Pastoral Region from 2009 to 2013. She is a patron of the Earbus Foundation of Western Australia.
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Kelly Hoare
- Occupations
- politiciancivil servant
- Biography
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Kelly Joy Hoare is a former Australian politician. She was a member of the House of Representatives from 1998 to 2007, representing the New South Wales seat of Charlton for the Australian Labor Party (ALP). She succeeded her father Bob Brown in federal parliament.
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Suzanne Orr
- Occupations
- urban plannerpoliticiancivil servant
- Biography
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Suzanne Patricia Orr is an Australian politician. She has been a Labor member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly since October 2016, representing the electorate of Yerrabi. She worked as an urban planner before her election.
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Cecilia Nembou
- Occupations
- women's rights activist
- Biography
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Cecilia Nembou is an educator and women's rights advocate from Papua New Guinea.
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Scott Thomson
- Years
- 1966-.. (age 58)
- Enrolled in the University of Canberra
- 2004-2006 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- paleontologistzoologisttaxonomistherpetologist
- Biography
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Scott A. Thomson is an Australian herpetologist, paleontologist, and taxonomist, specialising in turtles of the family Chelidae.
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Deborah Schofield
- Years
- 1965-.. (age 59)
- Occupations
- researcherhealth economisteconomist
- Biography
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Deborah Schofield is an Australian academic in the Macquarie Business School, Macquarie University where she is the director of the Centre for Economic Impacts of Genomic Medicine
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Susan Cox
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Susan Cox is an Australian diplomat and is a career officer with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. She has served in several ambassadorial positions, including as Australian Ambassador to the Federated States of Micronesia from 2007 to 2011 and Australian Ambassador to Croatia from 2012 to 2017.
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Afelee F. Pita
- Years
- 1958-.. (age 66)
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Afelee Falema Pita is a Tuvaluan diplomat. He was Tuvalu's Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 19 December 2006. to December 2012. He also was the ambassador to the United States.
