Biography
Professor Unaisi Nabobo-Baba is the Vice-Chancellor of Fiji National University (FNU). She was the first Indigenous Fijian woman to be appointed a professor at a university. She is married to Fijian politician Dr Tupeni Baba and has previously served as the Acting Dean of the College of Humanities and Education at FNU. Growing up in Vugalei, Fiji and witnessing traditional ways of life gave her a quiet understanding of things at home. She attended Ballantine Memorial Secondary School in Suva, in a time when Pacific education was being questioned, and many Pacific island nations were trying to exert their independence. She has taught at secondary schools and universities, lived through the Fiji coup of 2000, and has undergone many other life-shaping experiences. The contributions she has made to the Pacific are largely focused around education and Fijian-based methodologies. Professor Nabobo-Baba’s work as a Pacific researcher reflects her stories as a woman of colour, of the third world, of post-colonial Fiji, and the daughter of two Fijian tribes. Her life is evidence of how experience influences a person’s understanding, way of life, and how Indigenous knowledge morphs into a hybrid understanding, bridging traditional and non-traditional ways of knowing.
Keynote Presentation (2026) | TBA
