Isikeli Mataitoga in February 2010.
Isikeli Uluinairai Mataitoga is a Fijian jurist and former diplomat. He is a Justice of Appeal in the Court of Appeal of Fiji . He was appointed a Justice of Appeal on 27 March 2023.[ 1] [ 2]
He was the former Ambassador of Fiji to Japan , he was concurrently the non-resident ambassador to the Philippines , Russia , Vietnam and non-resident High Commissioner to Brunei . He presented his credentials to Japanese Emperor Akihito at the Tokyo Imperial Palace on 13 January 2010,[ 3] to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at the Moscow Kremlin on 5 February 2010,[ 4] and then to Philippines President Benigno Aquino III at the Malacañang Palace on 10 January 2013.[ 5] He presented his credentials to Vietnamese President HE Mr. Tran Dai Quang on 9 November 2016. [ 6] [ 7] He presented his credentials to His Majesty Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaulah in 2019. [ 8] [ 9]
Prior to his appointment as Fiji's Ambassador to Japan , Mataitoga held several other senior government appointments. His previous appointments include: the Director of Public Prosecutions of Fiji (from 1988 to 1993), the Solicitor-General of Fiji (from 1993 to 1996),[ 10] Fiji's Ambassador to Australia and Singapore (from 1996 to 1998), Fiji's Ambassador to the European Union and Fiji's Permanent Representative to the World Trade Organisation , UNESCO & FAO (from 1998 to 2004), Chief Executive Officer of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Fiji (from 2004 to 2007) and a Judge of the High Court of Fiji (from 2007 to 2009).
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