{"id":1477,"date":"2025-07-22T09:51:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T09:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fnu.ac.fj\/business-hospitality-tourism-studies\/?page_id=1477"},"modified":"2025-07-22T09:56:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T09:56:33","slug":"mereseini-waibuta","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fnu.ac.fj\/business-hospitality-tourism-studies\/about-college\/profile\/economic\/mereseini-waibuta\/","title":{"rendered":"Ms. Mereseini Waibuta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/business-hospitality-tourism-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/Mereseini-Waibuta.jpg\" alt=\"Mereseini Waibuta\" width=\"224\" height=\"227\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Position:<\/strong> Lecturer &#8211; Economics<\/p>\n<p><strong>Qualifications:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: none; padding-left: 0;\">\n<li>\u2022 Diploma in Business Leadership (USP)<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 Diploma in Regional Trade \u2013 WTO (National Uni of Singapore)<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 Diploma in Project Management (USP)<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 BA (Econ\/Management) (USP)<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 BHM (Griffith Uni, Qld)<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 Master in Econ of Devt (ANU, ACT)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Area of Expertise:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: none; padding-left: 0;\">\n<li>\u2022 Development Economics\/Project Management\/ODA<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 Budget\/Hotel Management\/Trade<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Brief Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ms. Waibuta brings 24 years of distinguished government service across multiple key ministries including the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Trade and Commerce, Ministry of Finance, and Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Trade. Her international experience includes a four-year diplomatic assignment as Counselor at the Fijian embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p>Her professional background also includes service as a Trade Consultant and participation in a British Government-sponsored project with the International Trade Centre\/UNDP in Suva. Prior to joining Fiji National University as a full-time faculty member, she shared her expertise as a part-time trainer at the University of the South Pacific.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Position: Lecturer &#8211; Economics Qualifications: \u2022 Diploma in Business Leadership (USP) \u2022 Diploma in Regional Trade \u2013 WTO (National Uni of Singapore) \u2022 Diploma in Project Management (USP) \u2022 BA (Econ\/Management) (USP) \u2022 BHM (Griffith Uni, Qld) \u2022 Master in Econ of Devt (ANU, ACT) Area of Expertise: \u2022 Development Economics\/Project Management\/ODA \u2022 Budget\/Hotel Management\/Trade<a class=\"read_more_link_for_excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fnu.ac.fj\/business-hospitality-tourism-studies\/about-college\/profile\/economic\/mereseini-waibuta\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"parent":1244,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fnu.ac.fj\/business-hospitality-tourism-studies\/about-college\/profile\/economic\/mereseini-waibuta\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ms. Mereseini Waibuta - College of Business, Hospitality &amp; 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