Welcome to Bridge Contributions, our new publication covering the Bridge Moris Diaspora Talent Platform. You are receiving it because you are part of the Bridge Moris community.
Hello everyone, and welcome to another edition of Bridge Contributions. We’ll be sharing five more of our Founding Diaspora Contributors today, but first, we wanted to talk a little about two initiatives that we think many of you could be interested in, as well as a job opportunity.
Opportunities
Policy Contributor @ Development Enterprise Network
The Development Enterprise Network (DEN) is an independent, non-partisan think tank led by Ali Mansoor, Financial Secretary of Mauritius (2006–2013) and a former Assistant Director at the IMF. DEN aims to develop practical, evidence-based policy proposals for Mauritius and its first project is a comprehensive national reform programme. The goal is for each reform to be published as a Consultation Paper in the national press every two to three weeks, opened to public comment, then revised and adopted as a formal Policy Paper available to all political parties and to the government. DEN is looking for voluntary contributors to these papers on a part-time basis. Express interest here.
Group Head of People Performance & Rewards
Mauritius has few roles with a genuine regional mandate, and we'd like to spotlight one of them today. C-Care International, one of the largest private healthcare providers in the Indian Ocean, is looking for a Group Head of People Performance & Rewards to strengthen how performance is measured, jobs are structured and people are rewarded across more than 80 sites in Mauritius, Uganda and Madagascar. Your first year centres on a productivity project spanning the whole group and a single compensation and benefits standard for every business unit and country. With C-Care expanding further into East Africa, the frameworks you design will shape markets the group has not yet entered. If you have led reward, job architecture or workforce planning in large organisations spanning several countries, this is a chance to put that expertise to work in Mauritius, from a hybrid base in Moka. Start dates are flexible for anyone serving notice overseas. Apply through Bridge Moris by 9 October, and do share with anyone who may be interested. Applications open to all.
Founding Diaspora Contributors
And now – presenting five of our Founding Diaspora Contributors who are bound together by a single, recurring sentiment: that Mauritius gave them their start, and that giving back is the natural next chapter in their lives. Meet Nadia, Yajna, Ravi, Neel and Estelle.
Nadia Bahemia is a consultant at one of the world's three leading strategy consultancies. Her path into large-scale transformation runs through behavioural science: a first-class degree from Cambridge in Psychological and Behavioural Sciences, a master's in the same field from LSE, and an MBA from London Business School. Her wish is a straightforward one: she wants to support the growth of the place she comes from.
Yajna Govind is a Junior Professor of Economics at the Aix-Marseille School of Economics, affiliated with the World Inequality Lab and Copenhagen Business School. She earned her PhD at the Paris School of Economics under world-renowned Thomas Piketty, and her research on migration, naturalization and inequality has been published in leading economic journals. She wants to help Mauritian institutions design policy from evidence rather than instinct.
Ravi Marimootoo spent over twenty years in leadership positions, building and turning around business across Singapore, Switzerland, and the UK for the global industrial engineering group Sulzer. He is the only member of our Founding Diaspora Contributors to have returned full-time to Mauritius, and he is convinced the island has reached the right moment to take its energy future into its own hands.
Neel Heerasing is a consultant gastroenterologist in Geelong, Australia, with special interests in inflammatory bowel disease and clinical nutrition. He graduated from Monash as Dux of his clinical school, trained further in the NHS through a research fellowship at the Royal Devon and Exeter Trust, and now teaches as a senior lecturer at Deakin University. He wants to put his clinical and teaching experience to work to improve care for the community that shaped him.
Estelle How Hong is a doctor in the final years of her specialty training in otolaryngology, or ENT, in the UK's NHS, based in Leeds. Her time in the NHS has shaped how she thinks about medicine beyond the clinic: the cost-effectiveness of treatment, and the clinical guidelines that hold care to a consistent standard. She wants to bring that perspective home, to help Mauritius deliver care that is both excellent and sustainable.
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