Education
Maurist Brothers College, Ashgrove, Queensland and University of Queensland, Australia.
Maurist Brothers College, Ashgrove, Queensland and University of Queensland, Australia.
Director Coastal Shipping Company Proprietary Limited.; Deputy Speaker, Vice-Chairman Public Accounts Committee 1968-1972. Parliament. Leader, People"s Progress Party since 1970.
Minister of Finance and Parliament Leader of Government Business 1972-1977.
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Primary Industry 1977-1978, Prime Minister 1980-1982, Deputy Prime Minister 1986-1988, Minister of Trade and Industry 1986-1988. Governor for Papua New Guinea and Vice-Chairman Asian Development Bank 1975-1977.
Fellowship mem Institute Bankers’ Association Incorporated., United States of America since 1976. Honorary Honorary degree (Economics), Dankook University, Seoul 1978.
Honorary Doctor Technology, University of Technology, Papua New Guinea 1983.
House of Assembly 1968-1975, since 1982, Deputy Speaker.
Married Stella Ahmat in 1966.