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Full Name
Rasigan Maharajh
Preferred Name
Rasigan Maharajh
Pronouns
Country
South Africa
Email
maharajhr AT tut.ac.za
Gender
Man
Affiliation(s)
Tshwane University of Technology
About Me
Rasigan Maharajh is concurrently Nodal Head of the Department of Science and Technology and National Research Foundation’ Centre of Excellence in Scientometrics and Science, Technology and Innovation Policy; the founding Chief Director of the Institute for Economic Research on Innovation at Tshwane University of Technology; an Associate Research Fellow of the Tellus Institute in Boston; and the Chairperson of the Southern Africa Node of the Millennium Project.
Rasigan was previously: 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, Rasigan was: 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. During the struggle against the apartheid regime, Rasigan held elected leadership positions within the: United Democratic Front, Congress of South African Trade Unions, and the African National Congress.
Rasigan was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree by the Forskningspolitiska Institutet (Research Policy Institute), School of Economics and Management, Lund University, Sweden; and he is also an alumnus of the University of KwaZulu-Natal of South Africa and the Harvard Business School of the United States. Rasigan is a Ministerial Representative on the Council of Rhodes University and an elected Senator of Tshwane University of Technology. Since 2004, Rasigan has contributed to more than 65 publications, and has presented his research in 42 countries.
Expertise by Geography
East Asia and Pacific, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America
Expertise by sub-field
Economic Anthropology, Economic Development, Economic History, Economics of Distribution / Inequality, Economics of Imperialism, Economic Sociology, Economics of Public Policy, Economics of Race, Feminist Economics / Economics of Gender, Heterodox Economics, History of Economic Thought, Industrial Organization, International Economics, International Finance, Labor Economics, Marxist Economics, Philosophy of Economics, Political Economy, Postcolonial Economics, evolutionary economics
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Media Contact
Website
ieri.org.za/people/maharajh
Research Gate
www.researchgate.net/profile/Rasigan_Maharajh