Worldwide Guide to Women in Leadership
Polynésie Française (Thaiti, Bora Bora and the Marquesa Islands) (Female
suffrage 1957) Is a French External Territory
Circa 1982-91 Minister of Social Affairs, Housing and
Unity Huguette Hong-Kiou
From circa
1996 Parliamentary Leader of the Tahoeraa Huiraatira Party and Vice-President of
the Permanent Commission of the Assembly 1999-2002.
1990-94 Minister of Family and Relations
with the Assamblée Territoriale and with the Council for Economic and Social
Development, Minister of Archipelago Development and Property Ioanne Temasuri
1994-97
Minister of Agriculture and Womens Affairs with Responsibility for the Relations
with the Assamblée Territoriale and the Economic and Social Assemblies
2008-09 Minister of
Agriculture, Breeding and Forests Haamoetini Lagarde
Vice-President of the Permanent Commission of the Assembly
1999-2002.
1997-2001 Minister of
Social Affairs and the Family Béatrice Coppenrath Vernaudon
Sister of Armelle Merceron
1997-99 Minister of Transport and
responsible for relations with the Assamblée Territoriale and with the Economic,
Social and Cultural Council Jacquie Graffe
1997-2001 Minister for Employment,
Professional Training, Social Dialogue and Women’s Affairs
2004-05 Minister of Housing and Housing Welfare Lucette
Taero
President of the Assembly
2001-04 and it's 2. Secretary from 2005.
199?-2004 Minister of Culture, Higher
Education and Research Louise Peltzer
1999-2004 Minister in charge of Promotion of Polynesian
Languages
2002-04 Minister in
charge of Promotion of Women
1999-2001 Minister of Environment Lucie Lucas
2001 Minister of
Tourism, Environment and Women’s Affairs Nicole Bouteau
From 2001 Leader of the No Oe E Te Nunaa
party
2001-04
Minister of Fisheries, Marine Resources, Industry and Small and Medium-sized
Businesses Nina Vernaudon
2001-04 Minister of Family and Solidarity Pia Faatomo
2005-08 Minister of Health,
Prevention, Food Security and Traditional Medicin
2001-04 Minister of Public Works and
Administrative Decentralization Armelle Merceron
2001 Minister of Labour, Social Dialouge
2001-04 Minister of Health
2004-05 Minister of Education, Higher Education and
Research
2006-07 Minister of
Finance and Public Works
2008-09
Minister of Solidarity, Housing, charged with the Reform of the Social
Protection, Family and Women's Affairs
Professor in Economics. Member of the Assembly since 2001.
Sister of Béatrice Vernaudon (b. 1950-)
2002-04 Minister of Tourism and
Environment Brigitte Vanizette
2002-04 and 2004-05 Minister of Artisans and Handicrafts
Pascale Haiti
2004 Minister of the Quality of Life, Health, Solidarity, charged with Family,
Women's Promotion, Associations and Leasure Marie-Laure Vanizette
Secretary of the Assembly 2002-04.
2004-05 Minister of Solidarity, Family
and Childhood and charged with the promotin of Women Emma Algan
2005-08 High Commissioner Anne Boquet
Secretary General of the High Commissioner and Deputy to
the High Commissioner 1993-96, former Sous-Prefect and prefect of Indre in
2000-02 and Prefect of the Region of Yvelines near Paris from 2008.
2005-06 and 2007-08 Minister of
Solidarity and Seniors Patricia Jennings
2007-08 Minister of Family Affairs and the Battle Against
Social Exclusion
2005-06 Minister of Family and Women's Affairs Valentina
Cross
2007-08 Minister of Women's
Affairs and Traditional Artisanship
2008 Minister of Solidarity and Family Affairs
Mayor of Teva i Uta and Mataiea from 2008. She is daughter
of Tinomana Ebb (1934-2009), a former Minister, Assembly President and Mayor of
Teva i Uta and Mataiea 1977-2001.
2005-06 Minister of Traditional Art, Artisanship and
Handicrafts Natacha Taurua
(b.
1979-).
2006-07
Minister of Social Dialouge, Housing and the Family Madeleine Brémond
2006-07 Minister of Tourism and
Environment Maina Sage
2008 Minister of Development of the Archipelagos Lana
Tetuanui
2009-11 Minister of Labour
and Employment charged with Professional Training, the Social Dialogue and the
Fight Against the High Cost of Living
Vice-President of the Assembly 2005-07. Convicted of
corruption, but has appealed.
2008 Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development
Minister Teua Temaru
Daughter of
pro-independence-leader, Oscar Temaru, who was President of the Government until
2008, when he lost the elections and joined in a coalition with the longtime
pro-french leader Gaston Flosse as Speaker of the Assembly. (b. 1982-).
2008-09 Minister for the Development of
the Archipelagos Otime Teura
2009 Minister for the Development of the Archipelagos and
Outer Islands Sylviane Terooatea
2009-11 Minister of Solidarity and Family charged with the
reform of the General Social-Welfare Reform and Physically Disabled and Elderly
People Teua Iriti
Second and First
Vice-President of the Assembly 2008-09.
2011-13 Minister of Culture, Handicrafts and the Family Chantal Tahiata
2013
2014- Minister of Empoyment and the Social Dialogue, Labour and
Professional Training, Research and Women's Affairs
2014- Minister of Education and Higher Education Nicole Fareata Sanquer
Last update 19.09.14