Hector Hatch

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Hector Hatch is a Fijian civil servant and former politician, whom the Interim Military Government named on 4 January 2007 to head the Public Service Commission, replacing Stuart Huggett, who was dismissed for non-cooperation with the regime which seized power in a coup d'état on 5 December 2006. Hatch was charged with the responsibility of downsizing the civil service, which the Military claimed was bloated. [1] His tenure in this position was brief, however: he resigned in the second week of January, citing poor health, and was replaced on 15 January by Rishi Ram.

Hatch served as Minister for Public Enterprises and Public Sector Reform in the interim Cabinet formed by Laisenia Qarase in the wake of the Fiji coup of 2000. He held office till an elected government took power in September 2001.

Hatch is a former boxer, who represented Fiji at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia.