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Dr. Indira Rampersad holds a Bachelor of Arts in Language in Literature, a postgraduate Diploma in International Relations, a Certificate in Translation from Spanish to English, a Master of Philosophy in Latin American Literature, a Master of Philosophy in International Relations and a Ph.D. in Political Science. She has also obtained an LEC from the Hugh Wooding Law School 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 and Caribbean Constitutional Law. Dr. Rampersad served as a Commissioner of the Equal Opportunity Commission of Trinidad and Tobago. She is also a qualified Attorney-at-law and a regular media commentator on national, regional and international issues. She has been a Lecturer in Political Science/International Relations at the Department of Political Science, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad, since 2007 and has been serving in the position of Senior Research Fellow at SALISES, St. Augustine since October 1, 2021

Join Dr. Indira Rampersad on Friday May 27, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. as she presents a virtual seminar titled, The Caribbean Court of Justice and Regional Integration.