Each year the Pacific Coopoeration 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.

• 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"