Teima Onorio : Ask Biography

Personal data

5th Vice-President of Kiribati

Assumed office

2003

President

Anote Tong

Constituency

Arorae

Preceded by

Beniamina Tinga

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Teima Onorio is the current Vice President of the Republic of Kiribati. She served a first term of Vice President from 2003 to 2007, before being reappointed.

She is also Minister for Education, Youth and Sports Development. It is a position she had held previously, before heading the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Cooperatives in 2007 and then returning to Education, Youth and Sports Development in 2008.

Onorio served as Member of Parliament for the Arorae constituency from 1998 to 2002.

As Vice-President of Kiribati, she has represented the Alliance of Small Island States at the United Nations, speaking on the topic of climate change.