Yolande Geraldine Paul is the Minister of Primary Industries and Marine Resources for the Autonomous Region of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea (PNG).
During the Bougainville conflict, when the province tried to break away from PNG, she moved first to the Solomon Islands to continue her education, then to mainland Papua New Guinea and then to Australia.
She became well-known in Bougainville for her work on a World Bank-funded project to reinvigorate the cocoa industry.
Her popularity as a result of the cocoa project enabled her to easily win the Central Region Women's seat in the September 2020 Bougainvillean general election.
She was one of two women to be appointed to the 15-person cabinet, the other being Theonila Roka Matbob, who was made Minister of Education.