Professor (Dr) SOBHEE Sanjeev Kumar

OU Board Member
Professor Sanjeev K Sobhee is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Mauritius. Prior to his appointment, Prof. Sobhee was Acting Vice-Chancellor since March 2022 till his appointment in a substantive capacity and served as Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Academia) from April 2017 to 19 September 2022. During his tenure as Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Sobhee has been spearheading major academic reforms at the University including the streamlining of several administrative processes and procedures. Moreover, he occupied the post of Dean of the Faculty of Social Studies and Humanities from 2008 to 2011 and prior to this, he was Head of the Department of Economics and Statistics from 2004 to 2006. As an academic, Prof. Sobhee has wide experience in teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels across different fields of Economics. His teaching focus has been Advanced Macroeconomics, Public Policy, Economics of the Environment and Sustainable Development and Quantitative Methods, mostly in postgraduate programmes.
As far as his research is concerned, Prof. Sobhee has published extensively in internationally refereed journals such as Journal of Economic Policy Forum, Oxford Development Studies, Canadian Journal of Development Studies, American Review of Political Economy, Development Southern Africa, Applied Economics Letters, Ocean and Coastal Management and Environmental Management, amongst others. He has also contributed to different book chapters in these areas. In addition, Prof. Sobhee has been a Consultant for several projects for various international institutions, namely, The World Bank, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), International Organisation for Migration (IOM), United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Southern African Development Community (SADC).” Professor Sobhee is also a member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of Mauritius.