ûEseta Fuafolau Vakapunaûa Ngu Fusituûa, styled Dowager Lady Fusituûa, is a Tongan former teacher, government official and Cabinet Minister. She was the first Tongan woman to obtain a bachelor's degree.
ûEseta Fusituûa obtained an undergraduate degree from Auckland University in New Zealand in 1964. A year later she obtained a New Zealand teaching diploma. In 1967 she married Siaosi ûAlokuoûulu Wycliffe Fusituûa, a large landowner on Niuafoûou island who would be made Lord Fusituûa in 1981 and represented the Niuas Nobles' constituency in the Legislative Assembly of Tonga. They had two children. Her husband died in 2014 at the age of 87, from which time she became known as the Dowager Lady Fusituûa.
Fusituûa was an assistant teacher at Tonga High School from 1965 to 1967, before becoming a member of staff of St Edmund's College in Canberra as a history teacher in 1973. She stayed there until 1981, in 1976 obtaining a master's degree in history from the Australian National University in Canberra, with a dissertation entitled King George Tupou II and the government of Tonga.
Returning to Tonga, Fusituûa served in 1982 as deputy secretary to King TÃÂufaûÃÂhau Tupou IV, before being appointed as senior education officer in the Ministry of Education from 1983 to 1990. In 1990, she was appointed as deputy secretary in the Prime Minister's Office and promoted to Deputy Chief Secretary to the Cabinet in 1992. In 2001 she was appointed Chief Secretary to the Cabinet, a position she held until her retirement from the civil service in 2008.
In 2009, Fusituûa served as Deputy Chair of the Constitutional and Electoral Commission. In April 2009, Prime Minister Feleti Sevele announced her appointment as Minister for Information and Communication. Under the Tongan government structure, this meant that she also became a member of the 2008 Legislative Assembly. Her term came to an end at the conclusion of the parliamentary term in November 2010.