Culwick Togamana

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Culwick Togamana (* 1969 ) is a Solomonic politician of the Democratic Alliance Party and environmental chemist. He has been the Environment Minister of the Solomon Islands since 2017 .

Life

Culwick Togamana studied at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji , where he received a Bachelor of Science in 1990 and a Master of Science in chemistry in 1995 . In 1997 he received his doctorate in environmental sciences at the University of Exeter in England with the thesis Evaluation of stability of metalliferrous tailings by chemical and microbiological leaching (German: "Evaluation of the stability of metal-containing overburden by chemical and microbiological pollution").

From 1990 to 2013 he was a lecturer in environmental chemistry at the University of the South Pacific, and from 2013 to November 2014 he was a farmer.

politics

In November 2014, Culwick Togamana was elected as an independent candidate to the Solomon Islands Parliament. He represents the constituency of Maringe / Kokota. The Maringe / Kokota constituency is on the northeast coast of Santa Isabel Island . He later joined the Democratic Alliance Party. From December 2014 to November 2017 he was chairman of the Parliament's Environment Committee and a member of the Public Expenditure Committee. He has been Minister of the Environment of the Solomon Islands since November 16, 2017. In the 2019 election he was re-elected for Maringe / Kokota.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Culwick Togamana on the website of the University of the South Pacific (English; archive version from May 6, 2018)