{"id":1185,"date":"2023-08-08T22:20:49","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T22:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mpe.gov.to\/?page_id=1185"},"modified":"2024-08-22T13:55:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T00:55:20","slug":"acts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mpe.gov.to\/?page_id=1185","title":{"rendered":"LEADERSHIP"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1185\" class=\"elementor elementor-1185\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-b5cea73 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"b5cea73\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7136ff6\" data-id=\"7136ff6\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8f3f55e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8f3f55e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>Lord Matoto<\/h3><p>Having obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Auckland, he became an assistant teacher at the Tonga High School in 1968. He later obtained a Master of Arts degree from the University of Durham\u00a0in 1971,<sup id=\"cite_ref-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> and was appointed Assistant Secretary at the Tongan Ministry of Finance that same year. He was Secretary of Finance from 1977 to 1983, then became the Bank of Tonga\u2019s Manager for Development and Planning. From 1999 to 2006, he was Managing Director of the Tonga Development Bank.<\/p><p>Lord Matoto was appointed to Cabinet as Tonga\u2019s first Minister for Public Enterprises in October 2006. He was also appointed Tonga\u2019s first Minister of Information in July 2007.<\/p><p>Matoto was also Treasurer of the Tonga Rugby Football Union from 1975 to 1982, and Chairman of the TRFU Referees Association \u201cfrom the early 80s to the early 90s\u201d. He is the current President of the Nuku\u2019alofa\u00a0 Rotary Club, of which he has been a member since 1974. He is, in addition, an ordained Minister of the Free Church of Tonga.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-88d8336\" data-id=\"88d8336\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ecedc98 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"ecedc98\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"393\" height=\"468\" src=\"https:\/\/mpe.gov.to\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/afualomatoto.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-1443\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mpe.gov.to\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/afualomatoto.png 393w, https:\/\/mpe.gov.to\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/afualomatoto-252x300.png 252w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 393px) 100vw, 393px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">LORD AFU'ALO MATOTO\nOCTOBER 2006 - JANUARY 2011<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-04089d6 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"04089d6\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-89b1e88\" data-id=\"89b1e88\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c368c83 elementor-widget elementor-widget-read-more\" data-id=\"c368c83\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"read-more.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/div> \u2026  <a href=\"https:\/\/mpe.gov.to\/?page_id=1185#more-1185\" class=\"more-link elementor-more-link\">Continue Reading<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lord Matoto Having obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Auckland, he became an assistant teacher at the Tonga High School in<span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mpe.gov.to\/?page_id=1185\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LEADERSHIP<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_canvas","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","vkExUnit_sitemap":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"common","_exclude_from_list_pages":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","vkExUnit_childPageIndex":"","vkExUnit_pageList_ancestor":"","vkExUnit_contact_enable":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1185","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":false,"author_link":"https:\/\/mpe.gov.to\/?author=1"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":null,"rttpg_excerpt":"Lord Matoto Having obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Auckland, he became an assistant teacher at the Tonga High School inContinue ReadingLEADERSHIP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpe.gov.to\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpe.gov.to\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpe.gov.to\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpe.gov.to\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpe.gov.to\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/mpe.gov.to\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4210,"href":"https:\/\/mpe.gov.to\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1185\/revisions\/4210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpe.gov.to\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}