Chan Santokhi

Also known as Chandrikapersad Santokhi

President of Suriname from 2020 to 2025

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5 total works indexed

ROBINS-I: a tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomised studies of interventions
· 2016 · cited 14,586x
Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,419x
The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans
· 2020 · cited 8,888x
IDF Diabetes Atlas: Global, regional and country-level diabetes prevalence estimates for 2021 and projections for 2045
· 2022 · cited 8,401x
Active contours without edges
· 2001 · cited 8,280x

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Chandrikapersad "Chan" Santokhi ( Dutch: [tɕɑnˈdrikaːpɛrˌsɑt sɑnˈtɔki]; Sarnami: चंद्रिकापेर्साद संतोखी, pronounced [cⁿd̪rikɑːpərəsɑːd̪ə sⁿt̪oːkʰiː]; 3 February 1959 – 30 March 2026) was a Surinamese politician and police officer who served as the ninth president of Suriname from 2020 to 2025. After winning the 2020 elections, Santokhi was the sole nominee for president of Suriname. On 13 July, Santokhi was elected president by acclamation in an uncontested election. He was inaugurated on 16 July.

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