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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says New Zealand has "embraced" the 'Indo-Pacific' view of the world, in a foreign policy speech.
Mana Pacific consult with governments, businesses and communities on engineering and social development projects across the Pacific region.
As part of that, the company helped small and isolated island nations procure orders too odd, small or irregular for other exporters.
Mafile’o was a social science researcher at Massey University, with over 20 years’ experience with social development projects across the Pacific.
Tani had two decades of engineering and facility management experience in the region.
Mana Pacific started when their expertise was called on in 2016 to help broker a partnership between Massey and a Papua New Guinean university for an agricultural project with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Tourism.