Rev James Bhagwan is the General Secretary of the Pacific Conference of Churches, a role he has held since 2018. He is an ordained Minister of the Methodist Church in Fiji and held the role of Secretary for Communications and Overseas Mission with the church between 2013 and 2017. He has a Master’s Degree in Theology majoring in Christian Social Ethics. He is a strong advocate for the Reweaving of the Ecological Mat as an issue of Pacific self-determination and a gift to the world.