Charles lepani biography
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Charles Lepani
Papua New Guinea public servant and diplomat (1947–2025)
Sir Charles Lepani, KBE (28 October 1947 – 10 January 2025) was a Papua New Guinean public servant and diplomat.
Charles Lepani was director of the PNG National Planning Office from He has subsequently worked as an economic consultant and senior diplomat.
He was the country's high commissioner in Australia from 2005 to 2017 and, prior to that, had been its ambassador to both the European Union and several European countries.
Early life
Charles Watson Lepani was born in the Trobriand Islands in the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea (PNG).
His father, Lepani Kaiuwekalu Watson, had worked for the Australian colonial administration and became premier of Milne Bay Province in 1983. Lepani attended high school in Queensland, Australia and in 1967 went to the University of Papua New Guinea (UPNG), one year after the university had been opened.
On graduating from UPNG with a degree in economics, he worked with PNG's Public Service Association as an industrial advocate and was then asked to head the new Bureau of Industrial Organizations, which
