Sela Molisa
| Sela Molisa | |
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| Minister for Trade (interim) | |
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Assumed office June 20, 2011 |
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| Prime Minister | Edward Natapei |
| Preceded by | George Wells |
| Minister for Trade | |
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In office April 24, 2011 – May 13, 2011 |
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| Prime Minister | Serge Vohor |
| Preceded by | Ham Lini |
| Succeeded by | Ham Lini |
| Minister for Finance and Economic Management | |
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In office September 22, 2008 – December 2, 2010 |
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| Prime Minister | Edward Natapei |
| Succeeded by | Moana Carcasses Kalosil |
| Member of the ni-Vanuatu Parliament for Espiritu Santo |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | 1952 Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu |
| Political party | Vanua'aku Pati |
| Spouse(s) | Grace Mera Molisa (deceased) |
Sela Molisa (born 1952) is a ni-Vanuatu politician. He is a member of the Parliament of Vanuatu, and was briefly Minister for Trade in Serge Vohor's Cabinet from April to May 2011. Initially a member of the Vanua'aku Pati, he left the party in 2006, but had rejoined it in time for the 2008 general election.
Molisa attended a British colonial secondary school in what was then the New Hebrides from 1966 to 1970, before studying at the University of the South Pacific in Suva from 1971 to 1973. He then studied at the Fiji School of Medicine in 1974.
Molisa has been a Member of Parliament since 1983, representing the constituency of Espiritu Santo, his home island. He served as Minister for Home Affairs in 1983; as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1983 to 1987; as Minister for Finance from 1987 to 1991; as Minister for Trade in 1996; as Minister for Finance again from 1998 to 1999; as Minister for Lands from 2001 to 2002; and as Minister for Finance twice more from 2002 to 2004 and from 2008 to 2010. He has also been Governor of the World Bank Group for Vanuatu, and member of the Bank Group's Board of Governors.
In the late 1980s, as Foreign Minister, he oversaw a commercial fishing agreement with the Soviet Union. As Minister for Finance, he oversaw the removing of Vanuatu from the OECD List of Uncooperative Tax Havens. He also sought to encourage the use of coconut oil, derived from Vanuatu-produced copra, to fuel automobiles so as to reduce the country's dependence on imported oil.
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