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H.E. Ratu Josefa Iloilovatu Uluivuda

His Excellency
Ratu Josefa
Iloilovatu Uluivuda MF, MBE,

 
   

CURRICULUM VITAE


Personal Details
Date of Birth: 29 December 1920
Marital Status: Married (to Adi Salaseini Kavu Seniloli)

Education
1930 -1934 Provincial School Northern Bucalevu
1935 -1938 Queen Victoria School, Nasinu
1939 -1940 Natabua Government Teacher Training Institution

Civil Service Career
1941 -1943 Served as Assistant Teacher in Kadavu Provincial School
1944 -1950 Head Teacher in Vuda District School
1951 -1953 Head Teacher in Somosomo District School
1954 -1958 Head Teacher in Bouma and Qeleni District School
1958 -1960 Visiting Teacher in Bua
1961 -1964 Head Teacher in Wailevu West
1965 -1967 Head Teacher in Savusavu District School
1968 -1970 Served as Assistant Roko Tui Cakaudrove
1973 -1976 Transferred to Labasa as Roko Tui Macuata
1976 Retired from Government Service


Awards
2001 Chancellor of the Order of Fiji
1996 Member of the Order of Fiji
1980 Member of the British Empire
1968 Appointed Justice of the Peace


Community Involvement
1977 -1982 
Joined Parliament as Alliance Member for Vanua Levu North and West National Seat

1978 -1980 
Member of the Great Council of Chiefs
Also Member of the Fijian Affairs Board

1983 -1990 
Liaison Officer in Fiji Forest Industries to Government and Landowners

1984 -1990 
Member of the National Trust for Fiji

1981 
Chairman of the National Trust for Fiji
Chairman of Cane Farmers Co-operative Savings and Loans Association from

1984-1998
Member of the Native Land Trust Board
Member of Education Forum (West)

1992 
Minister for Forests in the Caretaker Government from 29th April to 1st June

1992
Appointed Senator from the Great Council of Chiefs
Appointed as Vice-President of the Senate on 26th June 1992
Appointed by the President of the Methodist Church in Fiji as Member of the
President
Penal in the Methodist Conference in June 1992

1996 
Appointed President of the Senate in June 1996
Elected Vice-President of the Methodist Church in Fiji and Rotuma (1996 -1999)

1997 
Installed as Tui Vuda on 21st November 1997 following the death of Ratu Sir
Josaia Tavaiqia, KBE, CF

1997 -1998 
According to the 1970 Constitution, as President of the Senate, on occasions
performs the functions of the Office of the President of the Republic of
Fiji whenever the substantive President, or the person designated by the
Bose Levu Vakaturaga, is unable to perform the functions of the office of the President

1998 
Elected as Chairman of the Ba Provincial on 11th March 1998

1999 
Appointed by the Great Council of Chiefs (Bose Levu Vakaturaga) after
consultation with the Prime Minister to be Vice President of the Republic of
the Fiji Islands for five years with effect from 18 January 1999

2000 
Current member of the Great Council of Chiefs

18th July 2000
Appointed as Interim President of the Republic of the Fiji Islands

15th March 2001
Sworn in as new President of the Republic of Fiji


 


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