Rasigan Maharajh

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Full Name	Rasigan Maharajh
Occupation	Academic
Date Of Birth	Nov 8, 1969(1969-11-08)
Age	55
Birthplace	Durban
Country	South Africa
Birth City	KwaZulu-Natal
Horoscope	Scorpio

Rasigan Maharajh Biography

Rasigan Maharajh is one of the most popular and richest Academic who was born on November 8, 1969 in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

During the mid- to late-1980s, Rasigan Maharajh began his working life [wage- slavery] as a ‘shelf packer’ for a supermarket chain store in South Africa whilst simultaneously holding elected positions in the student and youth affiliates of the United Democratic Front (UDF). In 1985, Rasigan was part of a collective Student Action Committee that mobilised at the Reservoir Hills Secondary School for the establishment of democratic representative structures for pupils. He was subsequently elected to the executive committee in the portfolio of Publicity-Officer and also served as the Editor of Student Unity. He was involved in the work of the National Education Crisis Committee and the Natal Students Congress during the apartheid regime’s restrictions on Congress of South African Students (COSAS). In 1987, he was appointed the co-editor of the Student Diary by the Orientation Committee of the Student Representative Council of the University of Natal-Durban. In 1988, Rasigan served as Vice- President of Youth in Progress, a community based organisation aligned to the South African Youth Congress (SAYCO) in Reservoir Hills.

Between 1988 and 1990, he was employed by the Labour and Community Resources Project (LACOM) of the South African Committee for Higher Education Trust (SACHED) as an Organiser and Desktop Publishing Assistant. Rasigan served in the interim leadership group of the ANC in Reservoir Hills and was elected to its first Branch Executive Committee in 1990. Between 1990 and 1991, Rasigan was employed by Department of Politics of the University of Natal as a Research Intern under the supervision of Dr Ian Phillips. Their work entailed the compilation and verification of armed attacks against the apartheid regime by the military structures of the national liberation movements. During this period, he also worked as a Journalist for Africa Information Afrique where he contributed to the Youth and Student Political Desk. In 1991, Rasigan was elected to the Executive Committee and Secretariat of the first non-racial Students Representative Council of the University of Natal as its Secretary- General. In that year, Rasigan also worked in Information and Publicity at the 48th National Conference of the ANC in Durban.

Rasigan Maharajh Net Worth

Rasigan Maharajh is one of the richest Academic from South Africa. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Rasigan Maharajh 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Professor Rasigan Maharajh (born 8 November 1969, Durban), is an activist scholar who is primarily based in South Africa. In 2004, he was the founding Chief Director of the Institute for Economic Research on Innovation (IERI) which is located at the Tshwane University of Technology. From 2014, he has also served as the Node Head of the Department of Science and Technology and National Research Foundation Centre of Excellence in Scientometrics and Science, Technology and Innovation Policy. Since 2015, he holds the title of Professor Extraordinary of the Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology (CREST) of Stellenbosch University.

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In 2014, IERI together with its partner, the Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology (CREST) of Stellenbosch University was accorded the status as one of the country’s national Centre of Excellence by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and the National Research Foundation (NRF). During 2014, Rasigan was also a Visiting Research Scholar at the George Perkins Marsh Institute of Clark University in the USA and 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 in Brazil. Rasigan Maharajh was appointed Professor Extraordinary of Stellenbosch University in 2015 and concurrently serves as the Node Head of the DST/NRF Centre of Excellence in Scientometrics and Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (SciSTIP). He is also an Associate Research Fellow of the Tellus Institute in Boston.

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Riaan Ranked on the list of most popular Academic. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in South Africa. Rasigan Maharajh celebrates birthday on November 8 of every year.