INDIRA RAMPERSAD
Dr. Indira Rampersad holds a Ph.D. in Political Science, a Master of Philosophy in Latin American Literature, a Master of Philosophy in International Relations, a Bachelor of Arts in Language in Literature, a postgraduate Diploma in International Relations and a Certificate in Translation from Spanish to English. She has also obtained an LEC from the Hugh Wooding Law School, Trinidad and Tobago, an LPC and an LLM from Staffordshire University, UK and an LLB from the University of London. Dr. Rampersad has been awarded two Fulbright scholarships for study in the United States, one at the Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, to examine the American Political System, the other to undertake her Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Florida, Gainesville, where she majored in International Relations and minored in Public Policy. Her doctoral dissertation focused on American foreign policy to Cuba on which she has published and presented at many international academic and non-academic forums. Her research interests now extend to Latin American and Caribbean Politics and International Relations, American Foreign Policy, crime and violence in the Caribbean, the Caribbean Court of Justice, International Law, Employment Law and Caribbean Constitutional Law. She is co-author of the book “The Jurisprudence of the Caribbean Court of Justice and Regional Integration” and author of several publications on Youth, Crime and Gangs in the Caribbean. Dr. Rampersad has served as a Commissioner of the Equal Opportunity Commission of Trinidad and Tobago. She has been an Election Observer with the Organization of American States in El Salvador, Grenada ad Guyana. She is also a qualified Attorney-at-law and a regular media commentator on national, regional and international issues. She currently serves as President of the West Indies Group of University Teachers (WIGUT) and Head of the Department of Political Science at The University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago where she is also a Lecturer in Political Science/International Relations and International Law.
