Dr Anna Naupa is the Director General of the Melanesian Spearhead Group Secretariat, the first woman to hold this position. She serves as an Advisory Member to the Centre for Human Security and Social Change at LaTrobe University, as well as sits on the Advisory Committee for the Toda Peace Institute (Japan). For the past 20 years, Anna has worked in her home country of Vanuatu and at the regional level in the Pacific, holding senior advisory and management roles at the Pacific Fusion Centre, Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, and UN-ESCAP.