2. Fiame Naomi Mata’afa
Fiame Naomi Mata’afa is a Samoan high chiefess and the Deputy Prime Minister of Samoa. She is a Member of Parliament (HRPP) for the electoral constituency of Lotofaga in the political district of Atua.
She is the current Minister of Women, Community & Social Development in Samoa. Following the March 2006 general elections in which she was reelected for a sixth term she was nominated by Samoan Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi to her new portfolio at her request.
She was Minister of Education for 15 years (three terms). She is one of the longest standing Members of Parliament in Samoa and the first female member of Cabinet.
On 19 March 2016, she was sworn in as Samoa’s first ever female deputy prime minister