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Tuvalu Prime Minister Feleti Penitala Teo elected ninth President of the SIDS DOCK Assembly. Teo’s Presidency ushers in a new chapter for SIDS DOCK’s global engagement and infrastructure goals.

PHOTO CAPTION: 2nd October 2025, UN Headquarters, New York: The Honourable Feleti Penitala Teo, Prime Minister of Tuvalu, was elected President of the ninth session of the Small Island Developing States Dock (SIDS DOCK) Assembly on 25th September 2025, succeeding Honourable John Briceño, Prime Minister of Belize, marking a significant milestone in Tuvalu’s enduring leadership within the global alliance of Small Island Developing States and Coastal Developing Countries. The announcement coincides with the 10th anniversary of SIDS DOCK, a decade defined by resilience, innovation, partnership and unity in the face of climate adversity.

Accepting the role with “deep humility and unwavering resolve,” Prime Minister Teo reflected on Tuvalu’s foundational contributions to SIDS DOCK, including its historic ratification of the Statute in 2014 and its prior presidency in 2016. “Tuvalu may be small, but our spirit is vast like our ocean resources,” Teo declared. “We do not measure our worth in square kilometers, but in courage, conviction, and community.”

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SIDS DOCK is a United Nations (UN) recognised international organisation established in 2015, with all the rights and privileges for addressing climate change, resilience, and energy security in small islands. SIDS DOCK represents 32 small islands and low-lying developing states across the globe, and is so named because it is designed as a “DOCKing station,” to connect the energy sector in SIDS with the global markets for finance and sustainable energy technologies. The organisation’s work is coordinated by the Secretariat, in Belmopan, Belize.

For more information contact:
Christine Neves Duncan, Chief of Staff, SIDS DOCK Secretariat
Email: secretariat@sidsdock.org; cduncan@sidsdock.org