Sefanaia Nawadra is the Director General of the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP). With close to 30 years’ experience in the regional and global environment sector, Nawadra hails from the village of Naivuruvuru, district of Verata in the province of Tailevu, with maternal links to the village of Vuna on the island of Taveuni, in Fiji.