AuthenThink Intel GloCaL Pioneering initiatives from Dr Kris Rampersad

Dr Kris Rampersad is an award-winning independent international scholar, author, journalist and media/culture/gender empowerment specialist. Dr Kris Rampersad career and service to global to local communities spans the disciplines of media and communications, culture, literature, gender and education, anthropology, international relations and diplomacy.

She straddles spheres of media, culture and education as an expert on integrated sustainable developmental issues of the CARIBBEAN, SIDS, Developing World and the Global South.
A Commonwealth Professional Fellow an Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge and Indian Institute of Mass Communication, with a PhD in Pre and Post Colonial Literature, she invented the world’s newest creative genre, the MultiMedia MicroEpic.

AuthenThink Intel AI AnalyEthics Sustainabler

Dr Kris Rampersad is Creative Sustainabler-In-Chief of AuthenThink Intel AI AnalyEthics. She brings keen creative and technical insights, experiences and skills of a global thought leader, governance and multilateral relations specialist, an award-winning Investigative Journalist and Editor with a track record as a high-achieving academic scholar, working with grassroots multisector leadership to disrupt sully and sullied mainstream movements for social, political and economic justice equity and equality for marginalised entities.

Dr. Kris Rampersad is a Multilateral, Multisector International Relations Consultant, Facilitator, and Educator with over two decades of global experience, adept at navigating and responding to contemporary global dilemmas. Her exceptional leadership abilities and expertise in intergovernmental relations are bolstered by her specialization in innovative media strategies and gender- and culture-sensitive approaches to development.

Her extensive background in leadership, intergovernmental relations, and media, combined with her gender and culture-sensitive approaches to development, positions her as a formidable force in addressing global challenges. Her roles as President of the UNESCO Education Commission, Vice President of the UNESCO Programme and External Relations Commission, and Vice President of the InterGovernmental Committee on Intangible Cultural Heritage underscore her commitment to fostering international cooperation and cultural preservation.

In her distinguished media career in which Dr. Rampersad served Vice President of the Commonwealth Journalists Association, member of the Media Complaints Council and directed Media Watch initiatives to advance democratic practices for information use. She has also served as a Specialist Media/New Media Consultant for multilateral entities such as the Commonwealth Foundation, CIVICUS – World Alliance for Citizen Participation, the Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute, and the Organisation of American States’ Active Democracy Network and holds Trinidad and Tobago’s national medal for Advancement of Women/Journalism.

Dr. Rampersad’s unique blend of expertise combines deep insights into global geopolitics and diplomacy with a proven ability to harness and amplify the voices of marginalized segments of the Global South, including Small Island Developing States (SIDS), Low-Lying Coastal Regions, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Her success in leveraging these groups’ collective influence within international systems as the UN, Commonwealth, and OAS underscores strategic acumen and commitment to equity, equality, and inclusion. With her visionary ability to integrate conventional and new media with development goals, she crafts responsive, actionable programs tailored to institutional or jurisdictional needs.

With cross-sectoral expertise spans emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity, Blockchain, and ICTs for Climate Change, Leadership, Project Management & Sustainability, she is uniquely equipped to address the multifaceted crises of our time as her abilities to blend traditional skills with new media technologies, techniques & tools ensure responsive and effective action implementation. These competencies position her as a transformative force in addressing contemporary crises, including geopolitical instability, climate risks, and the digital divide. They underscore her dedication to amplifying the voices of marginalized communities.

She has spearheaded numerous successful multilateral campaigns to promote equity, visibility, and inclusion for the LAC, SIDS, and Global South regions. These include winning a place for Trinidad and Tobago on the UNESCO Executive Board with the highest number of votes for the LAC community, enhancing the visibility of the myriad cultures of the region, including enlisting Reggae on the UNESCO List of Intangible Cultural Heritage, troubleshooting fragmented socio-cultural post-colonial relations to earn Jamaica’s Blue & John Crow Mountains a place on the World Heritage list and conceptualising and driving the Commonwealth Caribbean Women Agents of the Change Initiative that is now adopted by the UN and global entities.

Pivoting beyond her doctoral focus on World Literatures in English, her self-driven initiative to advance literary appreciation in collaboration with Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott saw legacy ripples in inspiring the current national film and literary festivals in Trinidad and Tobago and national Nobel Laureate Week in St Lucia.

These exemplify her expertise in harnessing the power of marginalized segments of the developing world, including the Global South, Small Island Developing States (SIDS), and Low-Lying Coastal Regions. Her deep understanding of interconnected cultural and social relations, coupled with her gender-sensitive insights, enables her to craft solutions that are both inclusive and impactful.

Dr. Rampersad’s offers customized programs tailored to the specific needs of governments, institutions and jurisdictions. By leveraging her vast experience and Intel’s cutting-edge AI technology, these programs provide actionable insights and strategies to navigate and respond successfully to global dilemmas.

Her skills, knowledge and experience represent combine creativity and innovation to address the challenges of world fraught with challenges to redefine the landscape of global problem-solving, ensuring that authenticity, equity, and ethical standards remain at the forefront of creative problem-solving.

Make contact to explore opportunities to leverage these exceptional skills and knowledge for your institution’s unique challenges and customised impactful solutions for navigating the complex dilemmas of our world.

It adopts the long-form classical epic for short-form new media which she piloted to the Commonwealth Scholars Forum at the height of the Covid-19 Pandemic. Her web platform, the GloCaL Knowledge Pot features her developing multimedia expositions of CEIBA-EDUtainment, novel creations that blend education and entertainment for all ages and sectors from pre-school to policy-making through traditional, conventional and new media forms.

Dr Rampersad is a National Geographic Educator, UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Facilitator, Global Woman Techmakers’ Ambassador, Google Digital Skills Ambassador and Small Island Innovators’ Ambassador. Internationally, she has served variously as President of the UNESCO Education Commission, Vice President of UNESCO Programme and External Relations Commission, Vice President and Independent Member of the Consultative Body to the InterGovernmental Committee on Intangible Cultural Heritage and Vice President of the Commonwealth Journalists’ Association.

Get Involved

To support, sponsor or collaborate on developing online resources in the GloCal Knowledge Pot as CEIBA-EDUtainment and MultiMedia MicroEpic interactive initiatives, new investigative research, multimedia publications and productions and digitisation of journalistic, academic and socio-cultural archives and development of online resource base You can make contact and connect through her web portal GloCaL Knowledge Pot, www.krisrampersad.com; as KrisRampersad on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube and Pinterest, KrisRampersad1 on Facebook and @Krisramp on X/Twitter.

Dr Kris Rampersad is widely travelled as a researcher, teacher and gender, media and heritage educator facilitator and consultant involved in shaping and sharpening focus on the development deficits and engaging with international to local agenda-setting, policy-planning, reform, training, outreach and advocacy.

Education

Dr Rampersad holds PhD and BA First Class Honours from the University of the West Indies. She is a Commonwealth Professional Scholar of the Association of Commonwealth Universities.

Dr Kris Rampersad also received media and cultural professional fellowships to Cambridge University, UK through the Nuffield Foundation, the Indian Institute of Mass Communication/ITEC, Foreign Press Centre of Japan and Commonwealth Professional Fellowship through the Commonwealth Foundation and Association of Commonwealth University. She has also pursued numerous self-development and skills upgrades in leadership, diversity and inclusion, gender and development, project management, conservation, new media, data visualization, mapping and graphic representations.

Global Culture Heritage & Sustainable Tourism Educator Facilitator

Dr Rampersad is a certified by the United Nations Education and Scientific Organisation (UNESCO) as an Intangible Cultural Heritage expert educator, facilitator.

Dr Kris Rampersad is trained in preparing World Heritage nominations. She also has close knowledge of the range of UNESCO and other international social, cultural and gender based human rights, cultural rights, gender rights conventions, laws, policies and instruments.

Intangible Cultural Heritage Community-Based Development

Dr Kris Rampersad works and volunteers with multicultural communities across Latin America and the Caribbean. These include multi-ethno-religious and grassroots groups as the Maroons, Rastafari, Garifuna, Caribs, Arawaks, Mestizoes, Mayans, Inuit, IndoCaribbean, AfroCaribbean, Revivalists, Hindus, Muslims, Catholics, Presbyterian, Protestant, Jewish, Indian, African, Chinese, Syrian-Lebanese, and other groups across the Americas and the globe.

This resulted in admission of Reggae into the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/reggae-music-of-jamaica-01398

World Heritage Nominations

Dr Kris Rampersad prepared communities in Jamaica and provided advice and support for admission of Reggae on UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List. and the Blue and John Crow Mountains for the World Heritage Nomination.

This has produced visible results with the admission Blue and John Crow Mountain of Jamaica and Nelson Dockyard of Antigua and Barbuda into the UNESCO World Heritage Lists..

Diversity of Cultural Expressions, Culture-Trade Agreements, Creative Economy Industries

Dr Kris Rampersad has worked closely with Latin American and Caribbean Communities and world partners of the Coalitions on Cultural Diversity and U40 Network on advancing efforts at developing intercultural relations, advance discussions on the creative industries, analyse, evaluate and critique instruments of culture and trade including EU culture trade agreements as the EU-CARIForum agreements and Canadian-Caribbean cultural agreements.

National Geographic Educator Blue-Green Sustainable Economies

Dr Kris Rampersad is a National Geographic certified educator/facilitator. She has also completed several National Geographic educator, ecological project management, presentation enhancement courses. Through journalism, advocacy and outreach, she also promotes conscientious sustainable ecological and environmental initiatives.

Service to GLoCaL Communities

Dr Kris Rampersad has participated in numerous think tanks of the United Nations, Commonwealth, InterAmerican, European Union and Latin American and Caribbean systems devising solutions to global dilemmas and evaluating assessing development gaps in efforts to enhance access of small islands, the developing world, and Latin America and the Caribbean in particular to global resources.   

Global to Local Networks

UNESCO: Dr Kris Rampersad served as President of the UNESCO Education Commission of the UNESCO General Assemble. Dr Kris Rampersad was unanimously elected to serve four consecutive terms as Vice President of the UNESCO Programme and External Relations Commission (PX Commission).

Dr Kris Rampersad was Vice President of the Consultative Body of the UNESCO InterGovernmental Committee on Intangible Cultural Heritage, serving as an Independent member.

Culture, Heritage, Tourism, the Arts and Education

Dr Kris Rampersad is a member of UNESCO intangible cultural heritage facilitators’ Network.

Dr Kris Rampersad is a founding member and expert of the International Institute of Gastronomy, the Arts, Culture and Tourism (IGCAT).

Dr Kris Rampersad served as Chair of the National Commission for UNESCO

Dr Kris Rampersad was the first Chair of the National Museum and Art Gallery.

Gender

Dr Kris Rampersad is a digital ambassador for WorldPulse, an international gender-advocacy network.

Dr Kris Rampersad served as International Relations Director of the Network of NGOs for the Advancement of Women

Media

Dr Kris Rampersad served as Vice-President of the Commonwealth Journalists’ Association

Dr Kris Rampersad served on the Media Complaints Committee

Dr Kris Rampersad served on the bpTT Luminaries of Journalism Committee

Dr Kris Rampersad researched and prepared shortlisted candidate profiles for the Trinidad and Tobago Publishing and Broadcasting Association Awards for Media Excellence

Awards & Accolades

Journalism Gender, Culture, the Arts

Dr Kris Rampersad holds a National Gold Medal for the Development of Women/Journalism.

Alternative National Award for contributions to the Media, the Arts and Culture from Global Organisation of Peoples of Indian Origin

National Award (BWIA) for Excellence in Journalism, Social & Economic Commentary

Pan American Health Organisation/World Health Organisation Award for Excellence in Health Journalism

Writer of award winning television series Cross Country

1 Pioneer new creative genre MultiMedia MicroEpic

1. Dr Kris Rampersad developed and pioneered a new creative genre – the Multimedia Micro Epic.. It adapts the traditional long-form epic for short forms of new media using multimedia tools and techniques. She presented the genre in her short biopic film, One Night To Bloom, to the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission forum hosted online by the British Council on Commonwealth Day/International Women’s Day, March 8, 2021. Globalisation in Reverse was the theme of her presentation. More about the MultiMedia MicroEpic Here
2. Story Science

2. Creator of Story Science

Dr Kris Rampersad developed Story Science as her National Geographic capstone.

She also develops modules and materials for eco-cultural leadership education targeting from preschool to policy makers to unite formal, non-formal and informal gender and culture sensitive education and community-based knowledge transmission in an integrated approach to science and the arts education.

3. Revising Sustainable Development Agenda

Dr Kris Rampersad piloted and promoted re-envisioning the Sustaianble Development Agenda

On UNESCO Executive Board: Piloted notion to revise acronym of SIDS – Small Island Developing States to BOSS – Big Ocean Sustainable States. Now adopted by UNDP

Developed and Piloted to adoption for UNESCO Institute of Statistics to review and gather statistics on classifications of developing countries for greater equity

Supported introduction of Indentured Indian Immigrant Routes programme.

Pioneered Caribbean Eco-Sensitive Environment and Development through columns and article series Environment Friendly