| Address: |
No.72/11, Wijenaike Place |
| City: |
Pushpsdana Second Lane, Anniewatta, |
| Displacement Experience: |
Director of UNDP Project on Agriciltural Diversification, Sri Lanka 1975-78 and General Manager of National Agricultural Development & Resettlement Authority of Sri Lanka (1979 -81) concerned with resettling plantation workers consequent to and displaced by crop diversification and reforestation;
Planning & executing ( 2 years as Additional General Manager ) & impact assessment and research (jointly with Thayer Scudder of CALITECH for 12 years, 1978-90) of the Resettlements under Mahaveli Dams & Reservoirs Project Sri Lanka;
Advisor, UNDP/FAO Project for Training in Land Settlement, 1982-87 Resettlement Consultant on feasibility studies, planning operations and institutional developement for Resettlement Authority under WB/Saudi /ODA funded Indus Left Bank Outfall Drainage Project, Sindh. Pakistan 1994-99;
Social Impact Assessment & resettlement aspects of ADB funded Southern Expressway Project, Sri Lanka, 2000
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| Publications: |
editor, Land Settlement Experiences in Sri Lanka, Colombo, 1982.
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| Accomplishments: |
President , Sociological Association of Sri Lanka, 1980-82; Visiting Lecturer on Special course in Land Settlement, University of Jayawardhanapura, 1979-80.
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| Highest Degree: |
M.A (Womens Studies), Colombo University, 1996 |