Ms Maria-Goreti MUAVESI

Senior Environmental Legal Officer, IUCN Oceania Regional Office

Maria-Goreti Muavesi is the Senior Environmental Legal Officer at the IUCN Oceania Regional Office in Fiji. She has over 15 years of experience in environmental law and project management.  She is a current member of the Steering Committee of WCEL and the Chair of the Pacific Network for Environmental, the Law Working Group for the Pacific Islands Roundtable (PIRT) for Nature Conservation and Protected Areas. She is admitted as a Legal Practitioner with the High Court of Fiji and is a graduate of the University of the South Pacific (LLB) and the University of Wollongong (Master of Fisheries Policy). Maria undertakes law and policy research, supports member countries undertake environmental law awareness programmes, builds capacity of Environmental Law Associations and Networks in the Pacific and provides a platform to convene forums for advancing environmental law and the environmental rule of law in the Pacific.