Rasigan Maharajh

Rasigan Maharajh, is an activist scholar contributing to the critique of the political economy of knowledges, science, technology, and innovation. He served as National Coordinator of the Science and Technology Policy Transition Project for South Africa's Government of National Unity until his appointment as Head of Policy for the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in 1997. He is the founding Chief Director of the Institute for Economic Research on Innovation of the Tshwane University of Technology since 2004. Rasigan Maharajh holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the Research Policy Institute of the Lund School of Economics and Management at Lund University in Sweden. Rasigan is also an alumnus of the University of KwaZulu-Natal of South Africa and the Harvard Business School of the United States of America. From 2014, he has also served as the Node Head of the Department of Science and Innovation and National Research Foundation of South Africa Centre of Excellence in Scientometrics and Science, Technology and Innovation Policy and was also Professor Extraordinary of the Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology of Stellenbosch University for two terms between 2015 and 2021.