Katalaina Malua BEM, also known by her married name Katalaina Kokea, was a Tuvaluan women's rights advocate. She is President of the Tuvalu National Council for Women (TNCW).
Life Katalaina Malua trained at the Community Education and Training Centre in Suva, Fiji, graduating in 1974. She married a pharmacist.Samantha Rose, Waves forChange: the role of the South Tarawa-based women’s interests program in the decolonisation process of the Gilbert Islands, PhD thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2014, p.128.
In the 1981 New Year Honours she received the British Empire Medal for "services to the Women's Interest Section of the Ministry for Social Services".
In 2002 Malua called for women to play a greater role in the Tuvaluan political process.Women in Tuvalu seek greater role in the political process, RNZ, 3 July 2002. Accessed 12 December 2020. Later that year she was among a delegation accompanying Tomasi Puapua to the United Nations in New York.
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