Academic and Administrative Post

Academic Career

October 7th 2025 onwards          Professor in Management ( on Sabbatical Assignment)  Rajarata University of Sri Lanka       

July 2025 to date:                        Visiting Faculty, Chandigarh University, Punjab, India. 

June 2023 to date:                     Adjunct Professor, CSIBER University, Kolhapur, India.

October 10, 2017 to date                        Professor in Management

April 1,  2008 October 9, 2017:              Senior Lecturer Gr-I

April 1,  2002 to March 31,  2008:          Senior Lecturer Gr – II

April 1, 1998 to March 31, 2002:             Lecturer

April 1,  1997 to March 31, 1998:             Lecturer (Prob)

September 21, 1992 to March 31, 1997:       College Lecturer (NPAUC)

Administrative Posts 

• Director, Staff Development from 9th May 2017 to 8th May 2023

• Dean, Faculty of Business Studies from 12th November 2007 to 11th November 2010.

• Acting Rector of Vavuniya Campus, 10th March 2009 to 30th June 2009.

• Administrative Course Coordinator for Postgraduate programme in Education –Vavuniya Regional Centre of the University of Jaffna from January 2008 to April 2013.

• Head, Department of Economics and Management -from July 2002 to October 2007.

• Acting Head, Department of Economics & Management, from January 2001 to June 2002.

• Coordinator, Department of Economics & Management from January 1998 to December 2000.

• Coordinator, Diploma in Community Development & Management Programme Since August 2007 to August 2008

• Programme Coordinator, Accountancy & Finance Unit of the Northern Province Affiliated University College, Vavuniya Since March 1995 to One year period

• Acting Programme Coordinator, Accountancy & Finance Unit of the Northern Province Affiliated University College, Vavuniya Since February 1993 to One year period.

Other Posts in the Campus/ University of Jaffna/University of Vavuniya and Other HEIs

•  Serving as the Chairperson  of the Board of Study of Centre for Distance and Continuous Education from March 2025 onwards

• Chairperson of the Examination Offence Committee from November 2024 to a period of one year.

• Senate nominee for the Legislation Committee from October 2024 to a period of one year.

• Chairperson of the Endowment Committee from  January 2025 and corrected the By-Laws of the University.

•  Serving as the Chairperson for Interim Committee for Institutional Review- (Criterion-4- Teaching - Learning) of the University of Vavuniya.

•  Serving as the Senate nominee for the Selection Committee for   recruiting Academics for Dept. of Marketing Management, HRM, Management & Entrepreneurship and DELT of the University of Vavuniya since 2024.

• Serving as the Managing Editor of the Vavuniya Journal of Business Management of the Faculty of Business Studies, University of Vavuniya 

• ·Serving as a member of the Faculty Research Committee of the Faculty of Business studies, University of Vavuniya .

• Serving as a member of the CQA of the University of Vavuniya

• Serving as the Moderator and Second Examiner for the course unit of Principles of Management at the Faculty of Technological Studies.

•  Served as a Visiting Lecturer for Short Course in Human Resource Management conducted by the ICICVC of the Vavuniya Campus in 2021.

• Served as a Programme Reviewer of the Quality Assurance Council of UGC in December 2019 for the B.Sc Special degree programme  in Agriculture of the Faculty of Agriculture, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka.

• Serving as a member of the Curriculum Revision Committee of the Faculty of Business Studies, Vavuniya Campus.

• Member of the Sub-committee of Examination By-laws of Faculty of Business Studies, Vavuniya Campus.

• Serving as a member of the IQAC of the Faculty of Business studies, Vavuniya Campus.

• Member of the Sub-committee of Education and Research to the Centre for Gender Equity and Equality (GEEC), University of Jaffna from December 2017 to a period of two years.

• Serving as a member of the Curriculum Development Committee of new degree programme of BBM in Entrepreneurship.

• Serving as a member of the Curriculum Development Committee of new degree programme of BBM in Business Information systems.

• Served as a member of the Curriculum Development Committee of new degree programme of BBM in Banking and Insurance.

• Senior Student Counsellor, February 2017 to a period of one year.

• Serving as a Visiting Lecturer on “Information Strategy” for the MBA program of the University of Jaffna.   

• Serving as a Visiting Lecturer on “Social Psychology” for the BMS program of the Open University of Sri Lanka.

•  Served as a Guest Lecturer for the M.Sc in Strategic IT Management by the University of Wolverhampton, UK (Conducted by IDM Nation’s Colombo).  

• Served as Visiting Lecturer for M.Ed programme of the University of Jaffna.  

• Served as Visiting Lecturer for Short course on Operations, Logistics and Supply chain Management conducted by the Industry Community Interaction Cell     of Vavuniya Campus (ICICVC).

• Served as a Visiting Lecturer for  Project Planning & Management programme for the Public sector staff of Northern Province

•  Serving as a member of the Curriculum Development Committee of new degree programme of BBM in Entrepreneurship.

•  Member of Coordinating Mechanism for Promoting Research and International Collaboration (CRIC).

•  Member of the Sub-committee of Publishing and Implementing an Employee Date- 2017.

• Serving as a Coordinating member of the Programme Review Committee of the Internal Quality Assurance Cell of the Faculty of Business Studies, Vavuniya Campus .

•  Served as a Panel Member for assessing the Progress of a Candidate’s M.Phil leading to Ph.D in Management at the Faculty of Graduate Studies in 2017 and 2018.

• Serving as the Academic Coordinator for Marketing and Human Resource Management Specialization Programme of the Faculty of Business Studies, since March 2017 to a period of one year

• Member, Research & Publication Committee  from November 2007 to 11th November 2010, and since January 2014 on wards

• Member of the Curriculum Development Committee, Since October 2006 to November 2010 and January 2014 to date. 

• Chairperson, Faculty Research Committee  Since January 2014 -2017.        

• Member of the Curriculum Evaluation Committee,  from 22nd January 2016 onwards

• Member, University  Research Committee  Since January 2016 -27th March 2020

• Member of the Board of Study on Commerce & Management, University of Jaffna, from 1st April 2008 to 31st March 2011

• Senior Treasurer, Vavuniya Campus Students’  Union 2013/ 2014

• Curriculum Revision Committee of the Faculty 2013/2014

• Member of the Leave & Awards Committee of the University of Jaffna from 12th November 2007 11th November 2010

• Senior Treasurer, Business Studies Students’ Union, Vavuniya Campus, 2009/2010

• Representative – Internal Quality Assurance Unit  of the University of Jaffna, Since 2005 to June 2012      

• Student Counsellor, 1998 -1999 & August 2006 to July 2007