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Dr. Ron Sookram

Academic Director/Corporate Governance
The Arthur Lok Jack Global School of Business
Dr. Ron Sookram

Dr. Ron Sookram

Academic Director / Corporate Governance

About

Dr Ron Sookram is currently the Academic Director, Arthur Lok Jack Global School of Business, The University of the West Indies (UWI-ALJGSB), Trinidad and Tobago. Ron also serves as the School’s Resident Expert on Corporate Governance related projects and in this capacity leads governance interventions and designs customised governance training for boards of private and publicly-listed companies, state-owned enterprises, civil society organizations and credit unions.

Over his 12 years at the Business School, Ron also served as Director – Client Solutions (2018-2019), Deputy Academic Director (2017-2018), Acting Academic Director (2013-2016),) Director for the Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) programme (2008-2011) and is a senior member of faculty.

Ron is also Team Lead for the recently launched Trinidad & Tobago Annual Corporate Governance Ranking and a former member of the Trinidad and Tobago Bureau of Standards’ National Mirror Committee for ISO standard on corporate governance.

Before joining the UWI-ALJGSB, Ron held the position of Senior Research Specialist –Corporate Responsibility and Sustainable Development- at The Energy Chamber of Trinidad and Tobago. In this role he was instrumental in completing the National CSR Mapping Project of T&T. This project was the first of its kind in the Caribbean.

Ron has published peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on corporate governance, corporate responsibility and cultural history. 

Publications

  1. The adoption of open access journals for publishing management research: A review of the literature and the experience of The University of the West Indies (2020) – https://web.a.ebscohost.com/abstract?direct=true&profile=ehost&scope=site&authtype=crawler&jrnl=18140556&AN=143353878&h=hyTJ3xvHwHlLT%2bR0jajtAiitxydKY7KNDfuCEnKzEiCwD1JpUImaq4xoOCYsJycZC4LeM8r5vyJWfNhiwO5ORQ%3d%3d&crl=c&resultNs=AdminWebAuth&resultLocal=ErrCrlNotAuth&crlhashurl=login.aspx%3fdirect%3dtrue%26profile%3dehost%26scope%3dsite%26authtype%3dcrawler%26jrnl%3d18140556%26AN%3d143353878
  2. A University Business School as an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Hub (2019) – https://timreview.ca/article/1280
  3. Emergence of university-centred entrepreneurial ecosystems in the Caribbean (2019) –https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0950422219838220
  4. Globalization of MBA studies and transnational educational institutions in the Caribbean (2018) – https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0950422218792156
  5. Corporate Governance in the Emerging Economics of the Caribbean: Peculiarities, Challenges, and a Future Pathway (2016) – https://scholar.valpo.edu/jvbl/vol9/iss1/9/
  6. Environmental Attitudes and Environmental Stewardship: Implications for Sustainability (2013) – https://scholar.valpo.edu/jvbl/vol6/iss2/5/
  7. Capital Budgeting and Sustainable Enterprises: Ethical Implications (2012) – https://scholar.valpo.edu/jvbl/vol5/iss1/4/
  8. Capital Budgeting and Corporate Social Responsibility (2012) – https://sta.uwi.edu/conferences/11/finance/documents/Ron%20Sookramy.doc
  9. Corporate Social Responsibility in Caribbean Community: Lessons from Trinidad and Tobago (2010) – https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Surendra_Arjoon/publication/227457825_Corporate_Social_Responsibility_in_Caribbean_Community_Lessons_from_Trinidad_and_Tobago/links/5624e01708ae93a5c92d3100.pdf
Dr. Ron Sookram