Hilda Heine
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Hilda Cathy Heine is a Marshallese educator and politician. She has served as the president of the Marshall Islands since 2024, having previously served from 2016 to 2020. Heine was the first woman to
Official portrait, 2024
Heine in 2016
Heine with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2019
Heine with Philippine President Bongbong Marcos in 2024
Carl Heine
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Carl Russell Heine was an Australian-born missionary in the Marshall Islands. He arrived in the islands in 1896 as a sailor and settled on Jaluit Atoll, marrying a Marshallese woman. Ordained as a Con
Hilda Heine
…Pacific Islands District Commissioner as well as the first person to voice opposition to nuclear testing around the Marshall Islands. Her grandfather, Carl Heine, was an Australian-born Congregationalist missionary who married a Marshallese woman and was executed by the Japanese during World War II. Her grandmother…
Carl Heine
Heine (centre) with German businessman Adolph Capelle and Portuguese merchant Joachim DeBrum, possibly at the Debrum House on Likiep Atoll