About Sunjiv Soyjaudah

Professor Dr K M Sunjiv Soyjaudah obtained his LLB (Hons) degree from the University of London.He called to the Bar of England and Wales at the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple and subsequently joined the Mauritian Bar. He is presently the Head of Chambers. His areas of practice include ICT/Broadcasting/Telecommunication law, Intellectual Property Rights law, Civil Law, Criminal Law including Cyber law & Cybercrimes, Corporate & Commercial Law, Arbitration, Labour Law, and Family law.

Professor Soyjaudah read for a BSc (Hons) in Physics at Queen Mary College, University of London as a Commonwealth Scholar and for an MSc in Digital Electronics at Kings College, University of London again as a Commonwealth Scholar. He subsequently completed his Ph.D. degree at the University of Lancaster and University of Mauritius. He joined the University of Mauritius as a lecturer and was successively promoted to Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor and Professor. He was also appointed Dean of Faculty at the University of Mauritius. He successfully supervised over 20 Ph.D. students and 2 post-doctoral fellows. He has published over 250 research papers in International Journals and Conferences.

He was successively appointed Executive Director of the Tertiary Education Commission and of the Information and Communications Technologies Authority.