International Scientific Committee
The International Scientific Committee (ISC)
At present, the ISC is an entity established under Mauritian Government with members delegated by countries involved in the indentured experience. As such, the ISC is an inter-governmental committee.
Composition of the Committee (2021)
Suriname
Dr Maurits Hassankhan, President, International Scientific Committee
Historian, Senior Lecturer, Anton de Kom University,
Faculty of Humanities and IGSR
Mauritius
Dr Vijayalakshmi Teelock, G.O.S.K.,
Vice-President, Indentured Labour Route Project
Mr. Satyendra Peerthum, Historian, Coordinator of the
Indian Ocean Committee
Indian Ocean Region
Reunion
Mme Catherine Chane-Kune
Directrice de la Culture et du Sport, Department of La Reunion
Dr Michèle Marimoutou
Historienne et Professeure d’Histoire-Géographie à la Réunion
Chairperson of the Scientific Committee of Indentured Labour of La Reunion
UNESCO
Hubert Gijzen (Prof.)
Director, UNESCO Regional Office for Eastern Africa in Nairobi
South Africa
Dr Goolam Vahed
Professor, Department of Historical Studies, University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa
Prof Nalini Moodley
Assistant Dean and Senior Lecturer of the Faculty of the Arts, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria
India
Dr Ashutosh Kumar
Associate Professor
Chairman of the Centre for Alternative Studies in Social Sciences-New Delhi
Dr Amit Mishra
Associate Professor
Pacific Region
Malaysia
Mr. Muhamad Mansur Bin Ahmad Kusosi
Curator, Archeology Division, Department of National Heritage
New Zealand
Adjunct Professor, The University of Fiji, JDP School of Law.
Fiji
Dr Ganeshwar Chand
Vice-Chancellor, Solomon Islands National University and Chairman, Global Girmit Institute
Mr. Collin Sowani Yabaki
Director Heritage and Arts
Professor (Ms.) Shaista Shameem
Acting Vice Chancellor
Dean, Coordinator, International and Regional Relations and Diplomacy Programme
JDP School of Law, University of Fiji
Atlantic & Caribbean Region
Trinidad & Tobago
Dr Radica Mahase
Senior Lecturer, History Dept, College of Science & Tech
France
Dr. Minakshi Carien
Docteur en Science de l’Art: Théorie, Praxis et Esthétique, Université d’Artois
USA/Guyana
Dr. Lomarsh Roopnarine
Professor, Jackson State University, Mississippi, USA
Quebec, Canada
Dr. Nalini Mohabir
Assistant Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University
Guyana
Ravindra Dev
US attorney of law, member of the NY bar (JD), an ex-MP in Guyana