{"id":1614,"date":"2025-07-27T22:55:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T22:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fnu.ac.fj\/business-hospitality-tourism-studies\/?page_id=1614"},"modified":"2025-07-27T23:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T23:05:12","slug":"dr-asaeli-tuibeqa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fnu.ac.fj\/business-hospitality-tourism-studies\/about-college\/profile\/deans-office\/dr-asaeli-tuibeqa\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Asaeli Tamanitoakula Tuibeqa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong> Associate Professor and Dean College of Business, Hospitality and Tourism Studies (CBHTS) <\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_722\" style=\"width: 418px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-722\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-722\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fnu.ac.fj\/business-hospitality-tourism-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/02\/Dr-Asaeli-Tuibeqa-Dean-CBHTS-2.png\" alt=\"Dr Asaeli Tamanitoakula Tuibeqa\" width=\"408\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fnu.ac.fj\/business-hospitality-tourism-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/02\/Dr-Asaeli-Tuibeqa-Dean-CBHTS-2.png 408w, https:\/\/www.fnu.ac.fj\/business-hospitality-tourism-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/02\/Dr-Asaeli-Tuibeqa-Dean-CBHTS-2-290x300.png 290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-722\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">[Dip Ed (USP, Fiji), BA Economics (USP, Fiji); MA Development Economics (Kent UK); PhD Victoria University, Melbourne]<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Dr Asaeli T Tuibeqa is a UK trained development economist with development and commercial banking experience in Fiji. His areas of expertise are in SME financing, entrepreneurial development and education, knowledge management, project monitoring and evaluation, strategic management, applied research and policy analysis. He had a three-year stint in the Office of the Prime Minister (before the events of 2006) and was responsible in the monitoring and reporting of the Qarase Government Affirmative Action Programme on Fijian Participation in business.<\/p>\n<p>He obtained his PhD in small business and entrepreneurship from Victoria University Melbourne where he researched on the appropriateness of SME support services in Fiji. 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