Appointments

• 20092005

  Director

  SPARC, University of Colombo

• 20021999

  Dean, Arts

  University of Colombo

• 19881987

  Head, Sociology

  University Of Colombo

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  President

  Sociological Association of Sri Lanka

• 19951992

  Head, Sociology

  University Of colombo

• 20162015

  Chairman

  National Police Commission

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  Chairman

  Working Committee on social Sciences

Memberships

• Present1996

  Member

  International Sociology Association

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  Member

  Editorial Board, Contemporary Social Science

• Present2014

  Journal

  British Academy of Social Science

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  Member

  Editorial Board, Social Forces, published in the USA

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  Member

  Editorial Board, Global Social Policy

• Present2015

  President

  Association of Sri Lankan Sociologists

Memberships and Offices Held

• 19851980

  Member

  International Rural Sociology Association

• 19841982

  Secretary

  Sociological Association of Sri Lanka

• 19861985

  Member

  Sectoral Committee on Social Infra- Structure, National Science Policy Planning Project, Ministry of Plan Implementation, Sri Lanka

• 19881985

  Member

  General Research Committee, Sri Lanka association for the Advancement of Science

• 19871985

  Assistant Secretary

  American Studies Association of Sri Lanka, Colombo

• 20062002

  Member

  Advisory Council on Safe Migration, SARIQ, Delhi

• 20072005

  Member

  Interim council, National Centre for the Advanced Studies in humanities and Social Sciences, UGC, Colombo

• 20082007

  Member

  Advisory Panel, Bandaranaike Centre fo1993 to date - Member, International Sociological Association

• 19881987

  Secretary

  Social Science Section, SLAAS

• 19881987

  President

  Sociological Association of Sri Lanka

• 19911988

  Member

  Working Committee on Social Sciences, Natural Resources, Energy and Science Authority of Sri Lanka

• 19931991

  Secretary

  Local Organizing Committee, Sri Lanka Studies Conference, Colombo and Kandy

• Present1998

  Member

  Presidential Task Force on the 21 Prevention of Suicide in Sri Lanka

• 20062005

  Member

  Committee on youth Policy, Ministry of Youth Affairs

• 20072005

  Council Member

  Anti-corruption Project, ARD/USAID, Colombo

• Present2004

  Chairman

  Social Science Research Committee, NationalScience Foundation, Colombo

• 19961996

  President

  Section F, Sri Lanka Association forthe Advancement of Science

• Present1996

  Member

  Presidential Committee on Socio Cultural Problems of the Plantation Community

• Present1998

  Member

  Presidential Task Force on the Development of a Social Safety Network for Migrant Women.

• Present1988

  Commissioner

  Presidential Commission on Local Government Reform, Sri Lanka

• 20021998

  Member

  National Institute of Social Development, Colombo

• 20082006

  Member

  UNDP – VOICE Project, Ministry of SocialServices

• 20082007

  Member

  National Committee on Grassroots Innovation, Ministry of Science and Technology 22

• 20021999

  Chairman

  Social Science Steering Committee, National Science Foundation, (Formerly NARESA)

• 20021999

  Member

  Governing Council, Alcohol and Drugs Information Centre, Colombo

• 20012000

  Member

  Governing Council of the National Institute for Local Governance, Colombo

• 20012000

  Member

  Youth Services Council, Sri Lanka

• 20082004

  Member

  Governing Council, Sri Lanka, Institute of Local Governance. Steering Committee member, SA (Sociology Association)

• 20082007

  Member

  Governing Council, Institute of Labor Studies, Ministry of Labor, Colombo

• 20082007

  Member

  Think Tank Committee, Ministry of Community Development and Social Inequity Eradication

Major Professional Consultancies

• 19861985

  National consultant

  UNICEF/National Housing Development Authority, Sri Lanka Project on Micro-Level Social Planning in Disadvantaged Urban Areas, Sri Lanka

• 19891985

  Consultant Sociologist

  IDRC/Marga Institute (Colombo)research project on Rural Terms of Trade in Sri Lanka

• 19901989

  Consultant Sociologist

  WHO/MRI, Colombo sponsored study on Control of DHF, Colombo City

• 20001999

  Principal Researcher

  National Youth Survey of Sri LankaUNDP, Univ. of Colombo

• 19861985

  Consultant Sociologist

  Diagnostic Analysis of Irrigation systems in the District of Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka, sponsored by USAID and Ministry of Land andLand Development, Sri Lanka

• 19921989

  Principal Investigator

  WHO/Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka

• Present1992

  Team Leader

  Highland Vegetables in Sri Lanka

• 19871986

  Member of the Team of Researchers

  final evaluation of the Integrated Rural Development Project, Puttalam District, Sri Lanka

• 19901989

  Consultant Sociologist

  IIMI/USAID sponsored research project on Institutional Development in Major Irrigation Systems

• 19921991

  Team Leader

  UNICEF Research Project on the Situational Analysis of Nutritional Conditions in three selected AGA Divisions in Sri Lanka

• Senior Researcher, Final Evaluation of the UNICEF-assisted project on Community Development and Environmental Health, ColomboCity, Sri Lanka, 1983
• Rural Wells Project ; impact and people's response, IDRP, Puttalam District, Sri Lanka
• Institutional Development Specialist, Mid-term Evaluation of the USAID funded Irrigation Systems Management Project, Sri Lanka, March 1990
• Member, TEC, Upper Kotmale Hydro power Development Project (EIA)
• Consultant Sociologist, Western Region Development Master Plan, BOI/UDA, Colombo 2004
• 2006 UN/ESCAP Consultant on Educational Challenges in Asia
• 2010 to date, Co-Chair, Steering Committee, UNV, Colombo

• In my capacity as a Consultant Sociologist, I have compiled the following research reports for the Marga Institute, Colombo
• Consultant Sociologist, Evaluation of the Nutrition Education Programme, implemented by the Ministry of Plan Implementation, Sri Lanka sponsored byFAO/WFP, 1987
• Principal Investigator, Evaluation of Bio Gas Technology Project, sponsored by National Development Foundation, Sri Lanka, 1990
• Member, TEC, Colombo-Katunayake Expressway Project (EIA)
• Needs of Youth Affected by Conflict in Sri Lanka, World Bank, Colombo 24
• 2008, Advisor, ILO- Ministry of Foreign Employment Promotion on Sri Lanka Labor Migration Policy
• Principal Investigator, Reintegration of Migrant workers into Home Community, ILO: Colombo, 2013

• Institutional and non-institutional infrastructure forchildcare, Marga-Unicef project on Needs of Children, 1984
• Report on the Monitoring of Progress of the FAO - Marga project on Income Generating Activities for Plantation Women, 1985
• Member, UNDP Mission to Sri Lanka on Aid Coordination and Aid Management, Jan. 1994
• Team Leader, Social impact Assessment, Colombo – Matara Express Way project, 1999
• Consultant Sociologist, ADB/RDA Roads Improvement Project Resettlement Monitoring Programme, Road Development Authority, Colombo
• 2010- to date, Co-Chairman, Steering Committee, UNV- Ministry of Social Services, Sri Lanka

Short-Term Training Programs and Workshops Participated

• Salzburg Seminar on Abuse of Alcohol; strategies towards control, Salzburg, Austria, February 1986
• Interdisciplinary Research Group meeting on Irrigation Systems, held at Colorado State University, U.S.A., May 1987

• Workshop on the Use of Micro-computers for the analysis of irrigation data, sponsored by WaterManagement Synthesis Project, C.S.U., U.S.A. , held at Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka, 1987
• Workshop on Computer Applications in the Social Sciences, sponsored by the University of Colombo and the Leiden University Collaboration Project, Colombo, March 1987

Some of the Major International Conferences Attended

• Asian Studies Conference Asian Studies Conference, 1978, Melbourne, Australia
• WHO sponsored Conference on Contribution of State Monopoly Systems to the Control of Alcohol Related Problems, Stockholm, 1987
• 11th European Conference of South Asian Studies, Amsterdam, 1990
• International Seminar on Irrigation and Society : The case of Mahaweli, Sri Lanka, held in Mt. Verita, Switzerland, September, 1992
• International Seminar on “Childhood and Adolescence in the on text of Social Change” G.C.I., Colombo, February 1994
• Annual Alcohol Epidemiology Symposium, Porto, Portugal, 1995 June
• International Conference on Social Science and Medicine, Peebles, Scotland, September 2-6, 1996
• World Health Forum, Inter Laken, Switzerland
• International Conference on “Globalization and Change of Values”,sponsored by German Cultural Institute, Colombo, held in Kandy, Sri Lanka, Novermber 23 – 28, 2000
• World Forum of Sociology
• Poverty and Economic Policy Conference
• Asian Association of Social Science Research Council Conference, Canberra, Australia 2003
• Regional Conference of ISA National Associations, Taipei, Taiwan, 2009 February
• ISA World Forum, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2012

• International Rural Sociology Association Conference, 1980, Mexico City
• Conference on Alcohol in Developing Countries, sponsored by the Nordic Council for Alcohol and Drug Research, OSLO, 1988
• Fourth Sri Lanka Studies Conference, Amsterdam, April 1991
• Symposium on Consumption : Risks, Pleasures and the State in Contemporary Capitalism, June 1993, Helsinki
• International Sociology Association World Congress, Bielefeld, Germany, June 1994
• International Conference on Livelihoods from Resource Flows, Lincoping, Sweden, August 19-22, 1996
• Regional Conference of the Asian Association of Social Science Research Councils on Globalization and Local Cultures, held in Beijing, China, 12-17, October, 1997, 26
• IUAES Inter-Congress on Metropolitan Ethnic Culture, in Beijing, China, July 22–12, 2000
• World Congress, International Sociology Association, 2002 Brisbane, Australia
• International Congress of Asian Studies, Kuala Lumpur, 2007
• World Social Forum, Nairobi, Kenya, 2006
• ISA Research Committee 19 Conference on Social Policy in a Globalizing World, Florence, Italy 2007 August
• ISA World Congress, Gothenburg, Sweden, July 2010

• International Conference on Symbolic and Material Dimensions of Agrarian Change in Sri Lanka, Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka, 1986. 25
• Social Science and Medicine Conference, Amsterdam, 1989
• Social Dimensions of Health Policy, Regional Seminar held in New Delhi, India, March, 1992
• Sri Lanka Studies Conference, August 10-13, 1993, Colombo
• Annual Conference of the Association of South Asian Studies, November, 1994 Lancing, USA
• International Conference on Social Science and Medicine, Peebles, Scotland, September 2-6, 1996
• International Sociology Association World Congress, Montreal, Canada, July 26-30, 1998
• ISA Working Group Conference on “Rich and Poor, Berlin, Germany October, 12– 12, 2000,Regional Conference on Asian Youth Studies, Macau, Dec. 2 –5, 2000
• UNESCO General Meeting, Paris, 2005
• World congress, International Sociology Association, Durban, South Africa, 2006
• Asian Association of Social Science Research Councils Conference, New Delhi, India 2005
• International Congress of Asian Studies, Kuala Lumpur, Malysia, 2007
• European Association of Modern South Asian Studies Conference, Bonn, Germany, July 2010