He did his Master of Science Degree and PhD in Agriculture and Resource Economics on a Fulbright Scholarship on an East-West Centre Fellowship at the University of Hawaii.

In 2008, he became the Head of the USP School of Economics before being transferred to the Fiji Institute of Technology in October as the Dean of the Faculty of Commerce, Hospitality and Tourism Studies.

[3] In July 2014, he resigned as Commerce Commission director and from the Reserve Bank of Fiji board chairman to join the FijiFirst party to contest in the elections.

[5] He was appointed to Cabinet as Minister for Education, National Heritage, Culture and Arts in September 2014.

However, in December 2017, due to no conclusive evidence, those charges were dropped,[8] and Reddy was appointed as the new minister for Ministry of Waterways.