Joel Nilon
Senior Pacific Fellow
Mr Joel Nilon is the Pacific Fellow at the Pacific Security College at the Australian National University. Prior to this appointment, Joel was the Pacific Regionalism Adviser at the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat from 2015 – 2022, where he was responsible for developing and overseeing the delivery of regional policy frameworks such as the Framework for Pacific Regionalism and the 2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent. Joel’s professional and academic interests centre around supporting Pacific Island countries to maximise their potential through working together collectively. Joel has Samoan and Australian nationality.
