DEAN ’ S PROFILE
Dr . Haraksingh is one of the longest serving academics at the UWI . He is a graduate of the prestigious School of Oriental and African Studies , University of London , a Barrister of Lincoln ’ s Inn and an Attorney-at-Law since 1989 . He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan , Ann Arbor ; a visiting scholar at the University of Warwick ; and a Senior Fulbright Fellow at Harvard University . At the UWI , Dr . Haraksingh has taught a variety of multidisciplinary courses including Law and Society , Law and Business History , and Ethics and Jurisprudence in the Faculty of Medical Sciences . At the Graduate level , he has taught Spatial Information Law and Policy in the Faculty of Engineering , Advanced Caribbean Integration Law in the Faculty of Law , has conducted for more than 10 years the Globalization Seminar in the Institute of International Relations and has produced several doctoral students .
Dr . Haraksingh is an experienced university administrator who has been Chairman of the Institute of African & Asian Studies , Head for several years of the Department of History , a member of the University Council and Senate , as well as Chair of a variety of University committees . He advises the University on Pensions law and is Chair of the University Standing Committee on Ordinances and Regulations .
In public life Dr . Haraksingh has been a trade union leader as President of the West Indies Group of University Teachers , a Senator in the Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago , Chairman for many years of Caroni Limited , Chairman of the Central Regional Health Authority , and Chairman of the Sugar Association of the Caribbean . Dr Haraksingh is also a member of the Cariforum and Caricom College of Negotiators and the region ’ s Lead Negotiator for legal and institutional issues and for dispute settlement . He has been involved in a number of lobbying missions on behalf of the Caribbean , especially in Washington , Brussels and Geneva . Dr Haraksingh has been engaged as a consultant with several international organizations including UNCTAD , FAO , ILO , the Common Fund for Commodities , ILEAP [ International Lawyers and Economists against Poverty ], and the Commonwealth Secretariat . He is regularly consulted on trade matters , both in the Caribbean and in the wider ACP , and is one of the few regional lawyers to have appeared in dispute settlement proceedings at the WTO . In a series of successful arbitrations on behalf of West Indian cricketers Dr . Haraksingh helped to establish their right to the ownership of their own intellectual property , paving the way for a revolution in their earning capacity .
Dr . Haraksingh was for five years a Caricom Arbitrator and Conciliator under the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas . He has been since 2008 a Commissioner and founding Chairman of the Caricom Competition Commission , an appointment which he holds from the Regional Judicial and Legal Services Commission . In 2010 he was a recipient of the Vice Chancellor ’ s Award for Excellence .
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