Elise HUFFER

Regional Vice Chair, Oceania

Elise’s interests and work are in the areas of culture, conservation and development and the relationships between them in Oceania. She is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Oceania Centre for Arts and Culture at the University of the South Pacific as well as a consultant working throughout the region. She is chair of the newly formed Nature Culture Working Group, one of the five working groups of the Pacific Islands Roundtable on Nature Conservation (PIRT), which implements the Framework on Nature Conservation and Protected Areas in the Pacific Islands Region 2021-2025. She is also a member of the Ocean Rights and Kinship Network and is coordinating a project on ocean culture in partnership with the University of Bergen’s ‘Island Voices, Ocean States’ program. She has been Vice-Chair CEESP Oceania since 2017. Elise’s home is Fiji where she competes in outrigger paddling, following a sporting career in rugby. She has two daughters and many four-legged family members.