Dr. Roy I. Bhikharie, BA, MA, PhD (Dual PhD: Business Research and Administration)
(Dissertation: Managing Paradigms to create Work-Life Synergies in Executive Counseling – A Hermeneutic and Individual Phenomenological Approach)
Social Therapist, Philosopher-Psychologist, Business Researcher, Manager:
• Advisor of Flour Mill De Molen and Feed Mill Suriname (VESU)
• Deputy President of the United Nations Association Suriname
• Chairman of Progressief-Verheffende Partij (PVP) – Political Party
External Thesis Supervisor for ADEK University of Suriname & IBW University of Applied Sciences (Humanities and Social Sciences)
• Independent Researcher & Mystic
Before:
• CEO Stichting Lobi Suriname (Family Planning Foundation)
• Social Therapist at Forest Hospital (now Maryville Scott Nolan Psychiatric Hospital for Children) in Des Plaines, Illinois (USA)
• Mental Health therapist at Ridgeway Hospital in Chicago, Illinois (USA)
• Psychologist (appointed) at LPI, now Psychiatric Center Suriname (PCS)
• CEO Flour Mill De Molen and Feed Mill Suriname (VESU)
Chairman of the Suriname Manufacturers Association (ASFA)
• Permanent Advisor of the Suriname Manufacturers Association group in the National Assembly during the military period
• Member of Arbeidsadvies College (Labour Advisory Board)
• Committee member of Stichting Arbeidsmobilisatie en Ontwikkeling (SAO) (Labour Mobilization and Developmental Service Foundation)
• Member of Overlegorgaan Sociaal Akkoord (Consultative body Social Agreement)
• Member of De Nationale Dialoog (National Dialogue)
• Founder and Chairman of the Associatie voor Behoorlijk Bestuur en Liberalisatie
(ABBL) (Association for Good Governance and Liberalization)
• Management Consultant at Deloitte & Touche Suriname
• Writer for the entrepreneur paper ‘BRO’ (‘Breath’) for Papaya Media Publishing firm
Furthermore, I gave many lectures on different topics and published numerous articles in the local media, as well as seven books and a few essays in scientific journals.
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Books