Sione Tekiteki

Before entering academia, Sione Tekiteki worked in the Pacific for over 20 years in high profile political advisory and strategic policy positions. He has extensive experience in the fields of public international law, strategic engagement and diplomacy, multilateralism, and regional security and democratic governance related matters. 

Sione’s research focuses on public international law, Pacific regionalism, politics, and regional security, particularly how small states engage with power structures that are often externally shaped. He is interested in understanding new framings for cooperation, sovereignty, and institutional accountability, while remaining grounded in the practical constraints of policy, politics, international relations, and institutional behaviour. With lived experience inside formal systems and bureaucratic settings, his work centers on the intersection of ambition and realism, where the aspiration for better outcomes for vulnerable states meets the limitations of people, process, power and the law.