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SL-Indo relations (Sanvada 13)

Rohan Samarajiva, Ph.D

Dr. Samarajiva is Chair and CEO of LIRNEasia. He is Senior Advisor to Sarvodaya (Sri Lanka’s leading Community Based Organization) and serves on the ICT Subcommittee of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce and on the Board of the Lanka Software Foundation. Dr. Samarajiva was Team Leader at the Ministry for Economic Reform, Science and Technology (2002-04) responsible for infrastructure reforms, including participation in the design of the e Sri Lanka Initiative. He was Director General of Telecommunications in Sri Lanka (1998-99) and a member of the intergovernmental Joint Study Group on the India-Sri Lanka Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (2003) and chaired the GATS Advisory Committee of the Department of Commerce, Sri Lanka (2002-2004).

Priyanwada Herath

Priyanwada is a final year undergraduate student reading for the Special Degree in Economics at the University of Colombo. She is carrying out her Internship Program at LIRNEasia. Prior to joining LIRNEasia, as part of the Internship requirement of her undergraduate studies in Economics, she has also worked as a research Intern for the Infrastructure Planning and Economic Practice Division at Nathan Associates, Washington DC, USA. She carried out this Internship Program, while participating at the Capital Semester Program in Fall 2007 at Georgetown University on a partial scholarship granted by The Fund for American Studies, Washington DC.

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