Lagi Toribau

Background

About Lagi Toribau

The fight against the powerful, the greedy, the corporations, the government, the sceptics drives my passion to strive for a better world for my people. In Greenpeace, there is never a dull moment." Formerly Global Political Tuna Project Leader (Sydney), Head of Program (Program Manager) for Greenpeace East Asia, Korea managing the Greenpeace campaign program in Korea on Climate and Energy and Oceans campaign. Lagi was briefly based in Beijing, China leading Greenpeace Oceans campaign across the East Asian Greenpeace offices. Prior to that, he was the Oceans Team Leader for Greenpeace Australia Pacific based in Fiji for over 10years. He helped establish and develop Greenpeace tuna fisheries campaign in the Pacific region since 2002 and liaising amongst the 16 Forum island countries that shared the region's tuna resources. He led Greenpeace's delegations to meetings of the Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA), Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) and subsidiary bodies since 2004 including international political and industry forums. He also led four of the highly controversial Greenpeace ship expedition's in the Pacific targeting pirate fishing and tuna over fishing in the high seas and the EEZs of the Pacific and leads Greenpeace's activities and policies in the Pacific across the 16 FFA member countries. He has been a critical member of Greenpeace's regional and international team campaigning for sustainable and equitable seafood procurement across Europe, Asia and the USA.