APTC Board

Lesieli Taviri is Executive General Manager Banking, Kina Bank, Papua New Guinea. Lesieli has a Bachelor of Science from the PNG University of Technology and an MBA from the Torrens University, Adelaide, Australia. She is a Harvard Alumni having graduated from the Harvard School of Business Advanced Management Program (AMP191). Lesieli is the Deputy Chair of PNG’s largest Superannuation Fund, Nambawan Super Limited serving on the Audit and Risk Committee and Chairs the Transformation committee. She is the Founding Chair of the Business Coalition for Women and is a Director of Institute of National Affairs, a local socio-economic think tank. Lesieli is also a member of the PNG Institute of Directors and the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Megan Lilly is the Head of Workforce Development for The Australian Industry Group (Ai Group). Prior to this she was the Chief Executive Officer of Business Services Training Australia, the national industry advisory board for the business services and related industry sectors. Before joining the national board, she held several senior management positions in various Victorian TAFE institutes. Ms Lilly is a member of the Australian Industry Skills Committee (alternating Director), Deputy Chair – Worldskills Australia, member National Apprenticeship Employment Network, member of the Australian College of Educators and the Naval Shipbuilding College – Delivery Advisory Committee. Megan has also been appointed to the expert Panel to Review the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF).

Fantasha Lockington is currently the Chief Executive Officer for the Fiji Hotel & Tourism Association (FHTA) based in Suva. Ms Lockington is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors with a Masters of Business Administration from the University of the South Pacific and several IATA airline related management qualifications. In her capacity as the CEO for FHTA, she is the industry’s proponent for Government engagement with tourism businesses with strong advocacy for growth opportunities, productivity and equitable regulatory reforms. In her varied roles with the Fiji Higher Education Commission, Fiji National University Advisory Committee, Employment Relations Advisory Board, Fiji Revenue & Customs Services Review Committee, and the Fiji Commerce & Employment Federation’s Tourism & Transport Council, she supports private sector consultation and collaboration to strengthen and promote resilient business environments that will ensure Fiji’s biggest industry continues to grow sustainably.

Richard Brown is Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Queensland. He specialises in the economics of international migration, with a focus on the South Pacific, and in applied cost-benefit analysis. He has extensive international experience as an applied project and policy analyst, including industrial, infrastructural and educational projects and has conducted numerous professional development workshops in cost benefit analysis for government and non-government agencies in Australia, Europe, Africa, Latin America, Asia and the South Pacific.