Jone Kalouniwai

[1] Previously named as director general of National Security and Intelligence, Ministry of Defence and National Security from May 2020 to September 2021, he also served as section commander in Lebanon and instructor at the RFMF Training School.

[2] Prior to his appointment as commander of RFMF, he was promoted to the rank of major general by the prime minister of Fiji on 4 October 2021.

[2] Kalouniwai obtained military courses in Fiji in addition to receiving his training in New Zealand, Taiwan, India and Australia.

[2] As a commissioned officer, he was deployed at various units and participated in various missions with the Multinational Force and Observers in Sinai and Egypt, in addition to serving in the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, East Timor, Iraq, and the Golan Heights, Syria.

[2] His last staff appointment includes as a colonel in Syria at the UN mission Chief of Staff for the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force where he was assigned to oversee the operational and strategic functions of the MFO's headquarter from 2014-15 and 2015-16.