
Vinayagum Chinapah
Professor, Stockholm University - Institute of International Education: Department of Education, Sweden
Vinayagum Chinapah (Sweden and Mauritius) is Professor, Chair Holder and Head of the Institute of International Education (IIE), Department of Education, Stockholm University, Sweden since 2009. He joined IIE in 1976 and served in different professional and research capacities from a lecturer up to the present position as Professor and Director.
Dr. Chinapah worked at UNESCO in Paris (1992-2008) as Director of the Joint UNESCO-UNICEF International Program on Monitoring the Quality of Education and Learning Achievement which covered some 80 countries world-wide.
Dr. Chinapah is member of various research associations and councils and author and co-author of some 75 books. He has successfully led to completion some 35 PhD Candidates and some 180 MA students and has done research, training, and consultancies for several UN, International and Bilateral agencies and several national governments and institutions in some 150 countries world-wide over the past 35 years.