Professor Fui Le'apai Tu'ua 'Īlaoa Asofou So’o is Vice-Chancellor and President of the National University of Samoa.
He graduated from the University of Waikato in 1982 with a Bachelor of Education and a Bachelor of Arts and returned to Waikato in the late 1980s to study for a Master of Arts, graduating in 1989. He completed his PhD at the Australian National University in 1996.
Professor So’o hails from the village of Savaia Lefaga.
From 2001 to 2008 he was Director of the Institute of Samoan Studies, which later became the Centre for Samoan Studies.
