Lesieli Taviri
Lesieli Moala Taviri is a businesswoman and chief executive from Papua New Guinea. In 2014 she was the winner of the Westpac Outstanding Women Award in Papua New Guinea. Life. Taviri lived in Tonga as a child and moved to Papua New Guinea as a teenager. She was educated at Papua New Guinea University of Technology. In 2008 she joined Origin Energy PNG as corporate services manager and later moved into sales, marketing and business development positions before being appointed chief executive of the Papua New Guinea operation in September 2012. She was the first woman to lead  the organisation. Taviri has held the position of chair of the Papua New Guinea Business Coalition for Women, an organisation which provides businesses with programmes to develop the capacity of their female employees. She has also been involved with an initiative of the Port Moresby business community to fund a family sexual violence refuge centre.