Dr Marco de Jong

Dr Marco de Jong is a Pacific historian and lecturer at the Auckland University of Technology Law School.

He was raised in Tāmaki Makaurau with ties to Papa Puleia in Sāmoa, where he holds the chiefly title Faumuinā.

His work details the history of regional governance in the Pacific.

His doctorate, completed at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, looked at the history of the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP).

Currently Dr de Jong is researching the history of Pacific negotiations towards the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and New Zealand’s contemporary consideration of involvement in the AUKUS security pact.