Wilbur Heine
Wilbur Heine | |
|---|---|
| Minister in Assistance to the President | |
| In office May 2014 – January 2016 | |
| President | Christopher Loeak |
| Preceded by | Tony deBrum |
| Succeeded by | David Kabua |
Wilbur Heine is a Marshallese politician and government minister. From May 2014 to January 2016 he was Minister in Assistance to the President of Marshall Islands. In 2013 he was the Minister for Internal Affairs. Heine has done much work towards the environment, against climate change and disasters in the Marshall Islands.
In February 2016, he was appointed as minister of education in the cabinet led by his mother, President Hilda Heine.