I am a Tongan male, born and raised in a village named Tuanekivale on one of the main islands of Tonga. I was Senior Agricultural Officer at the Quarantine and Quality Management Division of the Ministry of Agriculture Food and Forest of Tonga before moving to Fiji to study at the Fiji National University.

I started my career as a loan officer at the Tonga Development Bank in 2005 before moving to the Ministry of Agriculture in 2008 as a Technical Officer Grade II at the Ministry's Research Station. 2010, I was relocated to the livestock section before moving to the quarantine and quality management division in 2017. I have been working in the Export section, facilitating exports from Tonga. I regularly acted as the Head of the Division, and I supervised export transactions in Tonga.

I hold a Bachelor of AgriScience major in Agriculture from Massey University, New Zealand and a Postgraduate Diploma in Science with Merit in Biosecurity and Conservation from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. I am now a Master by research candidate at the Fiji National University.

• Agriculture

MSc
Project Title: Assessing the biosecurity risk of HLB (Huanglongbing) to domestic Tongan citrus industry

Supervisor: Dr William Kerua, FNU
Co-Supervisor: Prof Steven Underhill, University of the Sunshine Coast (UniSC)

ACIAR Project: HORT/2019/165 Enhanced fruit systems for Tonga and Samoa (Phase 2): Community based citrus production

Email: shausia@yahoo.com