Dr Rasigan Maharajh is concurrently 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 an elected Member of the Academy of Science of South Africa.
Dr Maharajh was previously: Professor Extraordinary of the Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology at Stellenbosch University; a 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, United States; Head of Policy at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR); and National Coordinator of the Science and Technology Policy Transition Project for South Africa’s first democratic government. Before these deployments, Dr Maharajh was: a Senior Researcher at the Education Policy Unit of the University of Natal (University of KwaZulu-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 (University of KwaZulu-Natal); Research Assistant at the Labour and Community Project of the South African Council for Higher Education (CHE); and a Casual Labourer at Pick and Pay Supermarkets.
Dr Maharajh 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. Dr Maharajh is a Ministerial Representative on the Council of Rhodes University and an elected Senator of Tshwane University of Technology. Since 2004, Dr Maharajh has contributed to more than 65 publications, and has presented his research in 42 countries.
