The Secretariat to the Commission consists of the Senior Management Team and the staff of the Commission, headed by the Secretary as head of the organization, who is also the Chief Executive Officer.

The Senior Management Team (SMT), comprises of the Secretary, Deputy Secretary -Legislative Reform Wing, Deputy Secretary-Corporate Services Wing, and Directors and Executive Mangers as heads of the divisions. The SMT, led by the Secretary, makes the executives decision for the day-to-day administration, and management of organizations operations and functions.

Dr. Mange Matui is the Secretary of the Constitutional and Law Reform Commission (CLRC, a position which he holds since January 2020.  Dr. Matui graduated from the University of Papua New Guinea with Bachelor of Laws (LLB degree) with honors, Masters of Laws in Corporate and Commercial Law from the University of London, and Doctor of Philosophy in Law (Ph.D), specializing in corporate governance, from the University of Waikato, New Zealand.  After graduating from the University of Papua New Guinea, and admission to the bar after training at Papua New Guinea Legal Training Institute, Dr. Matui spent the last twenty years teaching law at the University of Papua New Guinea and practicing law with various law firms.

Before taking up the post as Secretary of the CLRC, Dr. Matui was a Professor of Law, and served as the Executive Dean of the School of Law for three years, and served as the Pro Vice Chancellor of the University of Papua New Guinea for another three years before his appointment as the Secretary to CLRC.  Dr. Matui also served as Director on several boards of corporations, including the CLRC as the Commissioner for five years.

Mrs. Dorothy Mimiko Kesenga has eighteen (18) years of professional experience in the public service. She started her career as a Legal Officer in 2003 with the Department of Justice & Attorney after being admitted to the bar from the Legal Training Institute in 2002. She left to join the Constitutional & Law Reform Commission (CLRC) in 2009 as a Senior Legal Officer and has been serving since in various senior positions including Director, Constitutional Law, until her appointment in 2018 as the Deputy Secretary. She has a Law Degree from the University of PNG and a Masters in Law (Specializing in International Law) from the Australian National University (ANU), Australia.

Mr. Xavier Winnia, completed his Bachelor of Art from UPNG in 2010. He then completed his postgraduate study in 2012 and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in 2014. Prior to joining CLRC in 2015, he worked as a research consultant on the review of the government’s decentralisation policy from between 2013 and 2014. He joined CLRC in 2015 as senior research officer and later to Acting Director Legal, Research and Library Services Division in June 2019.