Name Menin Rodrigues | ||
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Education St Patrick's High School, Karachi | ||
Menin Rodrigues... on the Goans of Pakistan
Menin Rodrigues is a businessman in Karachi, Pakistan. He is the owner of SHAMROCK Communications, a Public Relations and Communications company.
.He was baptised in Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Karachi. He later served as an altar boy at St. Patrick's Cathedral. He attended St. Patrick's High School until 1974. He joined the Government College of Commerce & Economics from where he obtained a B.Com degree in 1978.
He was made Sports Editor of the Christian Voice, Karachi in 1976. In the same year he started writing as a correspondent for the Morning News, an English language daily newspaper in Karachi. He later covered the 1st Champions Trophy World Hockey Championships in Karachi and the matches of the 3rd World Cup Hockey Tournament in Bombay in 1982.
In the past he has also been CEO & Executive Vice President at Asiatic PR – Hill & Knowlton Pakistan, Director of Marketing at Avari Hotels Limited and Corporate Manager at Pearl-Continental Hotels, Pakistan.
In 1990 he joined Preston University from where he obtained an MBA degree in Marketing in 1992. In 2005, when St. Joseph's College was returned to the Catholic Board of Education, Menin Rodrigues was the official representative of the Catholic Archbishop of Karachi in the matter of denationalization.
He is a Member of the Pastoral Council of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Karachi and a Member of the Board of Governors of St. Patrick’s College and St. Joseph’s College.
In his spare time, he writes about the past, present and future of Catholics in Pakistan. Rodrigues maintains a website goansofpakistan.org, dedicated to the history of the Goan community in Pakistan.