With the introduction of the Commerce Commission Act in 1998, the Fiji government established a four-member Commerce Commission in October of the same year. The Commission was dissolved by the Fiji Labour Party government in 1999. Following the 2000 Fijian coup d'état, a new Commission was appointed in October 2000 by the then interim government. In March 2004 the Commission set up its main office at the Garden City Complex in Suva expanding in 2010 to Lautoka, and Labasa. The Commission Secretariat is headed by the Chief Executive Officer, currently Mr Joel Abraham, who holds a Double Masters (Professional Accounting, International Relations & Diplomacy), he also holds a Post graduate Diploma in Climate Change. The current commissioners include: the Chairman, Joann Young, a consultant with the UN; Deputy Chair Firoz Ghazali; lawyer Lyanne Vaurasi, Vimlesh Sagar - chief financial officer FBC, entrepreneur Romil Patel - founder and director of Jewels Fiji, and Isikeli Tikoduadua - a telecommunications director and former CEO of Home Finance Bank .
