page_title: Fiame Naomi Mata'afa
hierarchical_section_title: Fiame Naomi Mata'afa
caption_attribution_description: English: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (center) attends a meeting with Pacific Islands foreign ministers at the Aggie’s Lagoon Resort in Mulifanua, Apia, Samoa. In attendance were fifteen foreign ministers, all members of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, including delegates from Australia, Fiji, Samoa, the Marshall Islands, Nauru, Tonga, Tuvalu, Guam, New Zealand, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Palau and Papua New Guinea.
context_page_description: Fiame Naomi Mata'afa is a Samoan high chieftess and the Deputy Prime Minister of Samoa. She is a Member of Parliament for the electoral constituency of Lotofaga in the political district of Atua. She is the current Minister of Women, Community & Social Development in Samoa. Following the March 2006 general elections in which she was reelected for a sixth term she was nominated by Samoan Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi to her new portfolio at her request. She was Minister of Education for 15 years. She is one of the longest standing Members of Parliament in Samoa and the first female member of Cabinet.
  On 19 March 2016, she was sworn in as Samoa's first ever female deputy prime minister.
  Mata'afa and Fuivaili’ili Egon Keil, Commissioner of Police, represented Samoa on August 16, 2019, at the acceptance ceremony in Henderson, Western Australia, for the Nafanua II. Present at the handover ceremony, representing Australia, were Linda Reynolds and Melissa Price, Australian Minister for Defence and Minister for Defence Industry.
context_section_description: Fiame Naomi Mata'afa is a Samoan high chieftess (matai) and the Deputy Prime Minister of Samoa. She is a Member of Parliament (HRPP) for the electoral constituency of Lotofaga in the political district of Atua. She is the current Minister of Women, Community & Social Development in Samoa. Following the March 2006 general elections in which she was reelected for a sixth term she was nominated by Samoan Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi to her new portfolio at her request. She was Minister of Education for 15 years (three terms). She is one of the longest standing Members of Parliament in Samoa and the first female member of Cabinet.
  On 19 March 2016, she was sworn in as Samoa's first ever female deputy prime minister.
  Mata'afa and Fuivaili’ili Egon Keil, Commissioner of Police, represented Samoa on August 16, 2019, at the acceptance ceremony in Henderson, Western Australia, for the Nafanua II. Present at the handover ceremony, representing Australia, were Linda Reynolds and Melissa Price, Australian Minister for Defence and Minister for Defence Industry.
caption: Fiame Naomi Mata'afa (standing, far left) at a meeting of Pacific Islands leaders with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (center), in Samoa, 26 July 2008
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