Prof Rasigan Maharajh
- Chief Director, Institute for Economic Research on Innovation
Biography
Rasigan Maharajh is the Chief Director of the Institute for Economic Research on Innovation (IERI) at Tshwane University of Technology. He specializes in public policy analysis, focusing on the political economy of science and technology, systems of innovation, and sustainable development. Rasigan has held key roles, including Head of the Policy Group at CSIR and National Coordinator for South Africa’s first democratic government’s Science and Technology Policy Transition Project. He is an alumnus of Harvard Business School and the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and a doctoral research fellow at Lund University. Rasigan is a member of GLOBELICS and has published widely on innovation policy and economic development.