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Sean Jacobs
Policy Specialist and AuthorSean Jacobs is a Port Moresby-born Australian writer, government relations and policy specialist. He has worked with all levels of government in PNG, Fiji, New Zealand and Australia. He currently works in local government in Australia and is the author of three books. He is a graduate of Griffith and Macquarie Universities.
Maureen Mopio
Journalist at HEREVATOKTOKMaureen Mopio is from Mekeo in Papua New Guinea and is a journalist, covering women’s social and political issues in PNG and the Pacific region. She produces a women’s and PNG’s radio programme called HEREVATOKTOK on 4EB Ethnic, Multicultural Radio Station in Kangaroo Point. She recently worked on the February Flooding half hour radio documentary called Rising Revers for Community Broadcasting Association of Australia.
Tess Newton Cain
Project Lead - Pacific Hub at Griffith Asia InstituteTess Newton Cain is the Project Lead for the Pacific Hub at the Griffith Asia Institute. She is a dual citizen of the UK and Vanuatu and has 25 years of experience working in the Pacific, the bulk of which was spent living in Vanuatu. She is a former Lecturer in Law at the University of the South Pacific. She has worked as an adviser to the Office of the President of Vanuatu, national governments, regional organisations and development partners with a particular focus on governance issues. She regularly provides media commentary in Australia, New Zealand, and globally on Pacific politics, policy, and development.
Ema Vueti
President at Pacific Islands Council of QueenslandEma Vueti is the president of the Pacific Islands Council of Queensland, which brings together diverse Pacific Island nation organisations and communities in Queensland as a collective to represent the voice and views of Pacific people to local, state, federal government and the wider community. Originally from Fiji, she has extensive experience in consulting, advocacy and research with Pacific communities and has provided extensive media commentary on the experience of those in seasonal worker programs.