Its recent incorporation means that the PHCG track record derives from the experience and reputation of our executive team and from the synergies enabled through their association in the company.  Amongst them, the executive team of PHCG:

  • Share an aggregate professional experience exceeding 70 years, the vast majority of it in the Melanesian region and Solomon Islands in particular.
  • Have development management experience in the public sector spanning both national and provincial arms, past leadership and management roles in NGOs and as consultants, entrepreneurs and executive officers in the private sector.
  • Possess recent consulting experience with all major bilateral and multilateral development organisations engaged in Melanesia.
  • Have extremely extensive Melanesia-specific professional experience in the following sectors, through academic training and teaching, professional consulting or employment experience.

 

Dr Phillip Tagini, LLB, LLM (USP), PDLP, PhD (Monash)

Executive Director

Phillip has a background in international investment law in Melanesia and has a PhD in mining regulation and policy at Monash University. He is a current practitioner in corporate and land law, with extensive and ongoing practitioner exposure to the operation of law on land affairs in Solomon Islands.

Core expertise: Land law and natural resource regulation in Solomon Islands. Tax and commercial legal environment and frameworks. Community participatory training. Human rights education and advocacy.

Career highlights:

  • PhD in mining regulation and policy
  • Contributor, World Bank “Doing Business” survey for Solomon Islands
  • Legal practitioner with more than 50 concluded land-related cases in High Court of Solomon Islands

Joseph Foukona, LLB, LLM (USP), LLM (VUW),

Training and HR Director

Joseph is a legal scholar has an extensive profile of tertiary teaching and distance education. He has been a key academic in the legal education aspect of capacity building for Solomon Islands Parliament.

Core expertise: Adult education, distance education  and curriculum development. Administrative and public law. Peace-building research and advocacy coordination. Constitutional law and legislative training.

Career highlights:

  • Lecturer in land law in USP Emalus
  • Legal lecturer for SI Parliamentary Strengthening Project

 

Peter Lokay, BCom, MA (UNSW)

Financial Controller

Peter is a professional accountant with wide ranging experience of donor and development finance administration. He has also been heavily involved with the provision of financial accountability capacity building throughout the Solomons, both in institutional and community settings.

Core expertise: Donor programme financial management. Development finance, public finance. Public finance and administration (provincial & national government). Community level financial capacity building

Career highlights:

  • Choiseul financial training
  • RAMSI MOG financial management
  • Career in MOF

Paul Roughan, BSc (Hons)

Business Development Director

Paul is a scientist and consultant with a broad background in strategy, policy and analysis. He has authored national reviews and policy documents on peace, commodities, environment and governance, and has a specialist focus on data collection, knowledge management and systems development.

Core expertise: Sector-wide analysis and donor programme design, project design and coordination, strategic evaluation. Technology training and capacity development. Survey design, coordination and analysis. Anti-corruption policy, strategy and advocacy.

Career highlights:

  • Research leader – “Business in the context of customary authority”, World Bank sponsored research 2009-2010 on business and customary land.
  • Chair, Transparency Solomon Islands (2005-6), Islands Knowledge Institute (2008-current)
  • Governance author for NZAID Solomon Islands country strategy 2003-2008.
  • Lecturer in Pacific politics, research and ethics at University of Canterbury since 2002
  • Member of Compliance Committee of Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

Dr. Morgan Wairiu, BSc, MSc, PhD (Ohio)

Consulting Services Director

Morgan is an experienced agricultural and environmental scientist who has served at the highest tier of the SI public service. He has also authored key donor strategy documents and studies in agriculture and forestry and served as Director to national NGOs.

Core Expertise: Sector-wide analysis and programme design (environment, agriculture, rural development). Smallholder agriculture and forestry systems. Community organisation and conservation. Participatory planning and learning. NGO capacity development and management.

Career highlights:

  • PhD in soil science
  • PS in SIG Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock
  • Project manager, SIG Auluta Palm Oil project
  • Director, ECANSI – National environmental NGO with community/kastom governance focus
  • Programme design and sector scoping reports for livelihoods and rural agriculture.