The Honourable Richard Maru OBE MP | |
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Minister for International Trade and Investment | |
Assumed office 24 August 2022 | |
Prime Minister | James Marape |
Minister for Finance and Rural Development | |
In office 13 May 2019 – 7 June 2019 | |
Prime Minister | Peter O'Neill |
Preceded by | Sam Basil |
Succeeded by | Charles Abel |
Minister for National Planning and Monitoring | |
In office 2017 – 13 May 2019 | |
Prime Minister | Peter O'Neill |
In office 7 June 2019 – 27 August 2019 | |
Prime Minister | James Marape |
Minister for Trade, Commerce and Industry | |
In office 2012–2017 | |
Prime Minister | Peter O'Neill |
Member of the National Parliament of Papua New Guinea | |
Assumed office 2012 | |
Constituency | Yangoru Saussia Open |
Personal details | |
Nationality | Papua New Guinean |
Political party | People's First Party (2020–) |
Other political affiliations | People's National Congress (2012–2020) Independent (2012) |
Alma mater | Papua New Guinea University of Technology |
Website | richardmaru.org |
Richard Maru OBE is a Papua New Guinea politician. He is a Member of the National Parliament of Papua New Guinea representing Yangoru Saussia Open, and is the leader of People's First Party. He was appointed as Minister for International Trade and Investment in 2022.
In 2011, he was appointed an OBE for services to development banking and rural development, and an active member of the Association of Development Financing Institutions in Asia and the Pacific.[1]