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Paulo Kautoke

Paulo Kautoke

Paulo Kautoke

Senior Director
Trade, Oceans and Natural Resources, Commonwealth Secretariat
Event(s): Singapore Energy Summit

A Tongan national. He started his career in the Tonga Public Service in 1983 as an Economist at the National Planning Department.

1998: Chief Executive Officer of the Tonga Ministry of Labour, Commerce and Industries.

2008: Head of the Permanent Delegation of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat to the World Trade Organization in Geneva.

2010: Assistant Secretary General at the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States’ Secretariat, based in Brussels, Belgium. Headed the Department of Macroeconomics, Development Finance and Intra-ACP Programming.

2016: Director of the Trade Division. In 2017 the two Divisions were merged to become the Trade Oceans and Natural Resources Directorate.