Fr. Malcolm Rodrigues

Malcolm Rodrigues is a Guyanese Jesuit who was ordained in 1973. Over the years he has been active in various ministries and is presently the superior of Arrupe House, the Jesuit Residence in Georgetown. He completed his M.A. (Oxon) in Physics in 1972 and was later posted at University of Guyana (UG), serving as Head of the Physics Department (1976-84), and then Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences (1986-89). Fr. Rodrigues later became Deputy Vice-Chancellor of UG and held this post from 1991 to 1993. He was also the Director of the Environmental Studies Unit from 1995 to 1998. Fr. Rodrigues has served Iwokrama for many years as a Member of the Iwokrama Committee from 1989 to 1990, then Member of the Interim Board, as well as government nominee on the International Board from its inception to the present. He has also served as the chair of Guyana’s Environmental Protection Agency and has sat on several labour related tribunals. The College has benefitted from his service as a Physics master in recent times. Malcolm has recently been appointed a member of Guyana’s Indigenous People’s Commission and a committee member of the Guyana Media Proprietors Association as the Catholic Standard representative. He is also known for his Human Rights activism in the 70s and 80s.

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