Sir Charles Lepani has over 40 years of experience in the public and private sectors representing Papua New Guinea as a senior diplomat and advisor. He was High Commissioner of Papua New Guinea in Australia 2005-2017, and director general of Papua New Guinea APEC 2017-2018.
Sir Lepani has been an advisor and consultant to successive Papua New Guinea National Government Departments and has also worked alongside United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Centre for Transnational Corporations and Asian Development Bank.
He is a graduate of the University of Papua New Guinea with an Arts degree in Economics, a Fulbright Scholarship recipient attending the John F Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and holds a Masters of Public Administration.
