Indira Rampersad has been named chair of NIHERST’s Board of Governors, with Sharmila Harry as deputy chair and other members appointed.
Dr In-di-ra Ram-per-sad has been ap-point-ed chair-man of the Board of Gov-er-nors of the Na-tion-al In-sti-tute of High-er Ed-u-ca-tion, Re-search, Sci-ence and Tech-nol-o-gy (NI-HERST).. The ap-point-ments were an-nounced af-ter Min-is-ter of Ter-tiary Ed-u-ca-tion and Skills Train-ing Prakash Per-sad dis-trib-uted in-stru-ments of ap-point-ment to the new board.. Dr Sharmi-la Har-ry was ap-point-ed deputy chair-man.. The oth-er gov-er-nors are An-dre Thomp-son, Aaron A.T.. Patrick, Jerome Ram-lakhan, Usha Ram-per-sad-Gokool and Naki-ta Pat-ter-son.. Dr Fazal Ali will serve on the board as pres-i-dent ex-of-fi-cio.. In a state-ment is-sued to-day, NI-HERST said the new-ly ap-point-ed board had been tasked with guid-ing the in-sti-tute’s strate-gic di-rec-tion as part of ef-forts to strength-en gov-er-nance and ad-vance sci-ence, tech-nol-o-gy, in-no-va-tion and re-search in Trinidad and To-ba-go.. The in-sti-tute said it looked for-ward to work-ing with the new board “to ush-er in a trans-for-ma-tive era for na-tion-al sci-ence, tech-nol-o-gy, in-no-va-tion, and re-search in Trinidad and To-ba-go.”
NIHERST board chair, Indira Rampersad, Sharmila Harry, Prakash Persad, higher education governance, science technology research