Musudroka is new Fiji Bureau of Statistics acting chief executive
Maria Talei Divuyaliyali Musudroka has been appointed the acting chief executive for the Fiji Bureau of Statistics (FBOS).
Ms Musudroka is the first female chief executive of FBOS and brings more than 20 years of professional experience from both the private and public sector with the past 10 years at the FBOS.
She has vast experience in statistical compilation, analysis and reporting, strategic management, and public administration.
During her 10 year career at the FBOS, she has been actively involved in the carrying out of the National Census, Household Income and Expenditure Survey, Employment and Unemployment Survey, and the compilation and reporting of various economic and social statistics.
Decades of expetise
Ms Musudroka has a Master of Arts in Development Studies, Post Graduate Diploma in Development Studies and a Bachelor of Arts (Management & Public Administration) and (Demography –Population Studies).
“Ms Musudroka’s two decades of expertise qualify her to lead the compilation and publication of soundlyderived statistical information that can form the basis of well-formulated policies in supporting our national development,” said the AttorneyGeneral and Minister for Economy, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum.
“We look forward to working closely with the Bureau under her leadership -- particularly through our national effort to improve the socio-economic standing of all Fijians.”
The Attorney-General further stated that a genuine need is -- and always will be -- the only qualification to access the historic measures of support we’ve made available to the Fijian people.
And we count on reliable statistical information to equitably implement policies such as subsidised water and electricity, the poverty benefit scheme, social pension scheme, disability allowance, the child protection allowances, the food voucher programme for rural pregnant women, and subsidised bus fares for the elderly and those living with disabilities, and the historic payout of unemployment benefits, including for those in the informal sector, food rations, and the subsidised treatment at private general practitioner clinics provided by the Government.