Chris Nangoi | |
Birth Name: | Chris Yer Nangoi |
Death Date: | 9 June 2022 |
Death Place: | Madang, Papua New Guinea |
Nationality: | Papua New Guinean |
Education: | Papua New Guinea University of Technology |
Party: | Pangu Pati United Labour Party |
Office: | Minister of Penitentiary Services |
Term Start: | 7 June 2019 |
Term End: | 16 November 2020 |
Predecessor: | Roy Biyama |
Office2: | Member of the National Parliament of Papua New Guinea |
Term Start2: | 8 July 2017 |
Term End2: | 9 June 2022 |
Predecessor2: | Puka Temu |
Constituency2: | Sumkar District |
Chris Yer Nangoi (died 9 June 2022) was a Papua New Guinean politician.
Nangoi earned a degree in electrical and communications engineering from the Papua New Guinea University of Technology in Lae.[1] In 2017, he was elected to the National Parliament, where he represented the Sumkar District for the Pangu Party.[1] From June 2019 to November 2020 he was Minister of Penitentiary Services in the cabinet of Prime Minister James Marape.[1] In 2019, he was one of the founders of the United Labour Party, a party to the Papua New Guinea Trade Union Congress.[2]
Chris Nangoi died in Madang on 9 June 2022.[3]