The Samoa Government has appointed a son of Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi to head the country’s Ministry of Finance.
The appointment of Oscar Thomas Malielegaoi as Chief Executive Officer was announced last Friday by the Minister of Finance, himself a former CEO of the same Ministry, Sili Epa Tuioti.
The new CEO will start in his new position January 1st, 2019 and replaces retiring Tupa’imatuna Iulai Lavea who has headed the ministry for the last nine years.
CEO Malielegaoi’s appointment means he is following in his Prime Minister father’s footsteps, who also headed the finance ministry until he entered politics in the 1970s.
The new CEO has been a director’s advisor at the Asian Development Bank and currently works as deputy CEO of Finance.
Department heads are contracted for three years.
Photo: Samoa Observer
