Prof Rasigan Maharajh

Biography

Rasigan Maharajh is concurrently: Professor of Public Affairs at Tshwane University of Technology; Elected Member of the Academy of Science of South Africa; Associate Research Fellow of the Tellus Institute in Boston; Ministerial Representative to the Council of Rhodes University, and Trustee of the Canon Collins Trust.

Rasigan was previously: Chief Director of the Institute for Economic Research on Innovation at Tshwane University of Technology; Node Head of the Department of Science and Technology and National Research Foundation’ Centre of Excellence in Scientometrics and Science, Technology and Innovation Policy; Professor Extraordinary of the Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology at Stellenbosch University; Visiting Professor at Rede de Pesquisa em Sistemas e Arranjos Produtivos e Inovativos Locais in the Instituto de Economia of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Visiting Research Scholar at the George Perkins Marsh Institute of Clark University, USA; Head of Policy at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research; and National Coordinator of the Science and Technology Policy Transition Project for South Africa’s first democratic government. Before these deployments, and in the struggle against the apartheid regime, Rasigan held elected leadership positions within structures of United Democratic Front, the Congress of South African Trade Unions, and the African National Congress, whilst also working as: Senior Researcher at the Education Policy Unit of the University of Natal; National Coordinator and Researcher at Operation Upgrade of Southern Africa; Research Assistant at the Macro-Education Policy Unit of the University of Durban-Westville; Research Assistant at the Labour and Community Project of the South African Council for Higher Education; and a Casual Labourer at Pick and Pay Supermarkets.

Rasigan was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree by the Forskningspolitiska Institutet (Research Policy Institute), School of Economics and Management, Lund University, Sweden; and is also an alumnus of the University of Natal of South Africa, and the Harvard Business School of the United States. Rasigan also serves as a Ministerial Representative on the Council of Rhodes University (4^th Term) and as a member of the Senate of Tshwane University of Technology (7^th Term). Since joining academia in 2004, Rasigan has contributed to more than 90 publications, and has presented his research in over 45 countries.