19/08/2026
FORMER Pacific Islands Forum secretary general Dame Meg Taylor has called for Pacific leadership to be grounded in the region’s own philosophies, relationships and cultural values rather than borrowed models.
Speaking at the 2nd Pasifika Philosophies, Leadership, Weaving Futures Conference, Taylor reflected on her experiences growing up in Papua New Guinea and working across the Pacific, saying leadership must be understood beyond formal positions and individual authority.
She said her early experiences of traditional leadership showed her both the strength of collective decision-making and the limits of systems that excluded women from formal spaces of deliberation.
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