Roukaya Kasenally

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Roukaya Kasenally is a democracy scholar and Associate Professor at the University of Mauritius. Kasenally serves as a member of the International Advisory Board of the Electoral Integrity Project (EIP), the Chair of the Steering Committee of the Democratic Solidarity Africa (DSA), a board member of the Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) as well as Series Editor of ‘Small State Studies’ (Routledge). Kasenally has researched and published in the area of democratic and media governance, elite non accountability, intrusive technology, and Chinese soft power. She is the co-founder of a number of think tanks in Mauritius that support citizen capacity building on democratic rights and responsibilities. She was a Reagan – Fascell Democracy Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) in 2011 and a Draper Hills Fellow, Centre on Democracy, Development and Rule of Law, Stanford University (2015). She holds a PhD from the University of Sheffield.