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Rasigan Maharajh

Full Professor of Public Affairs. Faculty of Humanities · Tshwane University of Technology

https://researchid.co/rasiganmx
@tut.ac.za
10Scopus Publications
1357Google Scholar Citations
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18Google Scholar i10-index

Biography

Rasigan Maharajh is a South African academic, activist-scholar, and research leader with work experience spanning over four decades. His research focuses on evolutionary political economy of science, technology, and innovation. He has held significant leadership roles in national and international institutions and has an extensive record of scholarly publications, community engagements, and global collaborations. Rasigan has a Ph.D. in the Political Economy of Research Policy from Lund University and is concurrently: Full 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; Ministerial Representative to the Council of Rhodes University; and Trustee of the Canon Collins Trust.

Education

1987: Reservoir Hills Secondary School: Matriculation. 1993: Development Contact Network: Logical Framework Matrix Methodology 1997 – 1998: Global Business Network: Basic and Advanced Scenario Development and Planning Modules 1998: Council for Scientific and Industrial Research: Advanced Leadership Programme Certificate of Outstanding Merit. 1999: Think Tools AG: Basic, Intermediate and Advance Methodology and Application Modules 2004: Cynefin Centre for Organisational Complexity: Complexity Fundamentals and Certification Course 1992: University of Natal: Bachelor of Arts (Economic History a...

Recent Scopus Publications

  1. Forty Years After: Personality and History (Part I)
    Russia in Global Affairs, 2025
  2. ECOCIDE OR SOCIALISM: ECOLOGICAL CHALLENGES AND NEOLIBERAL CAPITALIST CONSTRAINS ON RADICAL TRANSFORMATION
    Mzala Nxumalo Leftist Thought and Contemporary South Africa, 2024
  3. CREATIVELY DESTROYING VACCINE APARTHEID: Emerging STI Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic in a Combined, Uneven, yet Common, Global Context
    Reimagining Innovation Systems in the Covid and Post Covid World, 2023
  4. Innovation and technological change in South Africa
    Oxford Handbook of the South African Economy, 2021
  5. Fictions, factors and futures: Reflections on Africa's impressive growth
    Development Basingstoke, 2012

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