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.

1988: Wijsheid is niets anders dan de wetenschap van het geluk [ISBN 9991495185] (Wisdom is nothing else than the science of happiness): Citations on developmental psychology to redress the moral degeneration due to the military period in Suriname from 1980 to 1987.

1989: A brochure: “Government policy and economic independence in the year 1989”.

1990: Aktueel 1980-1990 [ISBN 9991430016] (Topical events 1980-1990): Poems on the military periods and political-economic state of affairs in Suriname.

1993: Uit de draaikolk op weg naar democratie, liberalisatie en welzijn [ISBN 9991495584] (Out of the vortex towards democracy, liberalization and well-being): Articles on democracy and liberalization in the post-military period in Suriname.

2000: Het Drama van Begeerten [ISBN 9058910210] (Play of desires): On the
common denominator of Eastern philosophy, Western philosophy, transpersonal psychology, the mystical dimension of great religions and quantum physics regarding the purpose of life and its implications.

2002: Managen, doet iedereen en kan iedereen beter [ISBN 9991469303] (Managing, everyone is doing it and can do it better): Basic lessons in management.

2009: Reviewing a Biography of Each of Us (ISBN 9780595498697).

2013: Create Work-Life Synergies in Executive Counseling (ISBN 9789077983966).

Essays

2016: “Resonating Corrupted Coin: How a Poor, Divisive, and Passive Majority Arose,
contrary to Periodic (ILO) Pledges,” Imperial Journal of Interdisciplinary Research, 2 (3): 676-690. Available from: www.onlinejournal.in/IJIRV2I3/117.pdf

2018: “Quantum mind: Condoning ethics violations versus human and sustainable development,” International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Development, 5 (1): 121-132. Available from:
www.allsubjectjournal.com/archives/2018/vol5/issue1/5-1-14

2019: (belated issue of 2018): “Civil Society: The Naïve Devil’s Advocate,” Journal of International Organizations Studies, 9 (1): 194-208. Available from:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333207519_Civil_Society_The_Naive_Devil's_Advocate

Lectures

Lecture (for de World Federation of United Nations Associations - WFUNA):
At the 65th Annual UN DPI/NGO Conference from 27-29 August 2014 at the UN Headquarters in New York, “Sanctioning of decent work in the Post-2015 agenda.” Available
from: https://wfuna.org/posts/wfuna-hosts-two-successful-workshops-un-dpingo-conference
And from:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280386642_Decent_Work_and_the_Post_2015_Development_Agenda