Nahema Temarii is French Polynesia's Minister for Sport, Youth and Crime Prevention. A former student at ISSEP UCO Papeete, she graduated with a degree in Information and Communication in 2011. She notably organized the surfing events at the 2024 Olympic Games in Tahiti and is preparing to orchestrate the 2027 Pacific Games.

In this interview for UCO Alumni, she looks back on the milestones in her academic and professional career that led to her ministerial post. Many thanks to the students of the Information and Communication degree program at UCO Papeete for producing this interview: Heinarii Hecquet, Kahura Grand and Anna-Louisa Grandhomme.

Nahema Temarii is one of the Grand Alumni of the Catholic University of the West, alongside other alumni from our various campuses and courses, and from a wide range of fields: institutions, arts and letters, solidarity and worship, entrepreneurship, sports and research.