Monise Laafai is a Tuvaluan politician and businessman.

[1][2] He supported Maatia Toafa's successful bid for the premiership, and was subsequently appointed to Cabinet, as Minister of Finance.

[3][4] He lost office just three months later, when Toafa's government was brought down by a motion of no confidence.

[5] Laafai is also General Manager of the Tuvalu Co-operative Society,[6] a position he has held since the late 1990s.

He was also chef de mission of the Tuvaluan delegation to the 2007 Pacific Games in Samoa.