Filoimea Telito

Infobox Governor
honorific-prefix = His Excellency The Right Honourable Reverend
name = Filoimea Telito
honorific-suffix =
GCMG MBE
order = Governor General of Tuvalu
monarch = Elizabeth II
primeminister = Maatia Toafa
Apisai Ielemia
term_start = 15 April 2005
predecessor = Faimalaga Luka
successor =
birth_date =
birth_place =
death_date =
death_place = Sir Filoimea Telito, GCMG, MBE (born on Vaitupu) is a political figure from the Pacific nation of Tuvalu.

Background

Telito is from Vaitupu Island.

He previously served as a school principal and church pastor.

Governor-General of Tuvalu

On April 15 2005 he took office as Governor-General of Tuvalu as the representative of HM Queen Elizabeth II, who is Tuvalu's head of state.

Telito resumed the practice by Governors-General of Tuvalu of accepting a Knighthood, a practice discontinued on a personal basis by his predecessor to that office, Faimalaga Luka.

ee also

* Politics of Tuvalu

External links

* [http://www.tuvaluislands.com/gov_addresses.htm Tuvalu Online Government Page]