Tagaloatele Peggy Fairbairn Dunlop is an Emeritus Professor at Aukland University of Technology and was the institute’s founding teacher of Pacific Studies. Tagaloatele has been an academic for more than 35 years, with research spanning across development, gender equality and youth equity. Among her long list of professional achievements, Tagaloatele was one of the commissioners on Samoa's national inquiry into family violence in 2017.