Jiko Luveni

Jiko Fatafehi Luveni (c. 1946 – 22 December 2018) was a Fijian politician and Speaker of the Parliament of Fiji.

[1] The daughter of a former shopkeeper turned shipping magnate, Luveni came from the village of Nukuni on the island of Ono-i-Lau, in the Lau archipelago.

She was also co-chair of a government task team established to make recommendations regarding "social cultural identity and nation building" for the proposed People's Charter for Change, Peace and Progress.

[7] She was elected Chairperson of the Lau Provincial Council in April 2014, succeeding Filipe Bole,[8] but after being announced as a parliamentary candidate for the FijiFirst party in July 2014,[9] she resigned that post after only three months in office.

[10] She resigned her seat immediately following the election in order to become Speaker, the first Fijian woman to hold the position.