Background
Nailatikau, Ratu Epeli Son of Ratu Edward Cakobau.
Nailatikau, Ratu Epeli Son of Ratu Edward Cakobau.
Graduate foreign service course, Oxford University, United Kingdom.
Served with New Zealand Defense Force. Through the ranks to brigadier general Republic of Fiji Military Forces, Commander, 1982—1987. High commissioner to the United Kingdom, Fijian ambassador to Denmark, Egypt, Germany, Israel and the Holy See Ministry Foreign Affairs, Fiji, 1988—1996, roving ambassador & high commissioner to the South Pacific Forum, 1998—1999, permanent secretary foreign affairs and external trade, 1999—2000.
Deputy prime minister, minister Fijian affairs Government of Fiji, 2000—2001, interim minister foreign affairs, international cooperation and civil aviation, 2007—2008, interim minister provincial development and multi-ethnic affairs, 2008, minister indigenous affairs, 2008—2009. Member of Parliament, speaker of house House of Representatives, Fiji, 2001—2006. Vice president Republic of Fiji Islands, 2009, president, since 2009.
Special representative for Pacific Joint United Nations Programme on Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
Married Adi Koila Mara. 2 children.