Mona Ainuu

Mona Ainuu is a Niuean politician and Cabinet Minister.

Mona Ainu'u
Mona Ainu’u in 2017
Minister of Natural Resources
Incumbent
Assumed office 11 June 2020
Prime Minister	Dalton Tagelagi
Preceded by	Dalton Tagelagi
Member Assisting the Minister for Natural Resources
In office May 2017 – 11 June 2020
Prime Minister	Toke Talagi
Minister	Dalton Tagelagi
Preceded by	Halene Magatogia
Member of Parliament for Tuapa
Incumbent
Assumed office 6 May 2017
Preceded by	Fisa Igilisi Pihigia
Personal details
Nationality	Niuean
Political party	None
Occupation	Journalist Politician

Prior to entering politics, Ainuu was a journalist with the Broadcasting Corporation of Niue and a Public Relations and Media Officer with the Niuean government.^[1][2] She was also the president of the Niue Island Volleyball Association and a founding member of the Pacific Alliance of Development Journalists.^[3][4]

Ainu'u was first elected to the Niue Assembly in the 2017 Niuean general election, representing the Tuapa constituency.^[5] She was subsequently appointed Member Assisting the Minister for Natural Resources.^[6] On 11 June Ainu'u was appointed Minister of Natural Resources in the Cabinet of Dalton Tagelagi.^[7]

She was re-elected unopposed at the 2023 election,^[8] and reappointed to Tagelagi's cabinet holding the same portfolios.^{[9] [10]}