Photo shows Dr Verene Tandrayen-Ragoobur (centre) at her meeting with Prof. Godfrey Baldacchino (Pro-Rector for International Development & Quality Assurance), accompanied by Dr Stefano Moncada.
Verena Tandrayen-Ragoobur, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Mauritius, has visited the University of Malta to explore additional avenues of cooperation between the two universities. Her visit is part of an Erasmus+ academic exchange, coordinated by UM's Islands and Small States Institute (ISSI). Another academic from the University of Mauritius, Dr Riad Sultan, visited UM and ISSI as part of a similar exchange last week.
Dr Tandrayen-Ragoobur's research focuses on climate change, gender, labour market and trade. She is currently heading the Pole of Applied Socio-Economic Research and Analysis at the University of Mauritius.
Dr Stefano Moncada, coordinator of these visits, is lecturer in Development Economics and European studies at the Institute for European Studies, Board member of the Islands and Small States Institute, and focal point of the climate change platform, all at the University of Malta.
Like the University of Malta, the University of Mauritius is the single public university of a small archipelagic state, a former British colony and a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. Its language of university instruction is English.