Malama Meleisea is a Samoan historian and the author of several historical books on Samoa.
[1] He holds a Phd in History and Politics from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.
[1] He was the founding director of Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies at Canterbury University and director at Centre for Pacific Studies at Auckland University, New Zealand.
[4] In 2016 he was appointed as one of the commissioners for a commission of inquiry into domestic violence in Samoa.
[5] Dr Meleisea was the Director of Samoan Studies at the National University of Samoa, until 2022.