Professor Selwyn Ryan
Conferments		BA Hons (First Class) History, University of Toronto,1960
		PhD, Political Science, Cornell University in 1966
Position		Professor, Former Director
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Phone/Ext		1 (868) 662 2002 2421
E-mail		Selwyn.Ryan@sta.uwi.edu
Papers Publications Research Consultancies
Research Interests		Political Development in the Caribbean with particular reference to Trinidad and Tobago
		Politics in Ghana, Uganda and Tanzania with a particular reference to the implementation of socialist strategies
		Ethnicity and Political and Voting Behaviour in the Caribbean Culture and Entrepreneurship
Professional Involvement		Taught at York University in Toronto, the University of Ghana, Makerere University in Uganda and in the Department of Government of the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad. At the latter, he was Departmental Head from 1976 to 1979
		A member of two Constitutional Commissions established by the Government of Trinidad and Tobago
		Chairman of the Public Utilities Commission
		Deputy Chairman of the Caribbean Press Council
		President of Caribbean Studies Association (1989 - 1990)
		University Director of the Institute of Social and Economic Studies, University of the West Indies
		Director of the St. Augustine Branch of the Institute from 1986 to 2003
Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies the.salises@sta.uwi.edu http://sta.uwi.edu/salises 1 (868) 662 2002 Ext: 3066,2038 Fax: 645 6329