Each year the Pacific Cooperation Foundation brings to New Zealand a prominent Pacific person to give a public lecture on a regional topic to increase understanding and awareness of the issues our Pacific neighbours face.

• 2009 - Hon Dr Feleti Sevele, Prime Minister of Tonga

• "Tonga's Foreign Relations: New Zealand and the Pacific"

• 2008 - Ratu Joni Madrawiwi, former Vice President of Fiji

•  "The Challenges in Building a New Fiji"

• 2007 - Hon Sato Kilman, Vanuatu Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs

•  "Melanesia and the wider Pacific"

• 2006 - Sir Arnold Amet, former Papua New Guinea Chief Justice

• "The Challenges of Constitutional Democracy in the Pacific"

• 2005 - Hon Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi, Prime Minister of Samoa

• "The Future of Regionalism in the Pacific"