Grace Malie

Grace Malie is a Tuvaluan climate activist, focusing on the effects of climate change in Tuvalu. She has been quoted before the International Court of Justice, and she has presented her country's concerns before the United Nations. She is a youth delegate for the Rising Nations Initiative.

Life Grace Malie was raised on the island of Funafuti in Tuvalu. She went to school on Fiji where the children, from Tuvalu, were teased as being from the "sinking island". At the end of 2023, she attended COP28 in Dubai, where she lobbied the British King Charles III. She was introduced to him by the secretary general of the commonwealth, Patricia Scotland, and Malie said she received the King's support.

On 8 September 2024, Malie and the Tuvaluan prime minister Feleti Teo addressed the seventy-ninth session of the United Nations General Assembly regarding sea level rise. She told the summit that Tuvalu had done little to cause climate change but it was being asked to take the most pain, stating, "As you debate, the waves of the ocean erodes a part of the island. As you continuously discuss, hopes of a Tuvaluan youth vanish. As you delay implementing the Paris Agreement or paying for loss and damage, the identity of not just Tuvaluans but other big ocean states are at stake. We have done the least to cause the crisis, but we are paying the highest price".

Malie has also presented at TEDxLondon.