Advisors

Eng. Neil Devadasan – IT Director, The Polis Center, Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI), Indiana, USA. Devadasan designs and develops computer applications for community information systems and for the social sciences. He has streamlined back-office data processing for the social Assets and vulnerabilities Indicators project. Devadasan also developed an interactive community information system for citizens of Central Indiana SAVI (http://www.savi.org). He did his graduate work at IUPUI and his undergraduate degree from the University of Peradeniya in Production Engineering. He was one of fifteen international fellows in the 2005-2006 Reuters Digital Vision Fellowship Program at Stanford University.

Vidhura Ralapanawe is grounded in climate science, communications, corporate strategy and change. He received a B.Sc. (Eng) from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka in 1996 and M.Sc. in Responsibility & Business Practice from the University of Bath, U.K.in 2000 and has obtained his Ph.D. in Organizational Change, Organizational Development, and Change from Ashridge Business School in the UK. He has worked for IBM in New York and later as a consultant to the corporate sector in Sri Lanka on social and environmental risk management & business strategy. He is interested in sustainable development, technology and the application of climate information. He handled the Sri Lanka case study of the Natural Disaster Hotspots Project for FECT. He is currently the Executive Vice President at Epic Group.

Professor, Department of Mathematics Florida, Agricultural and Mechanical University Dr. Ajith Gunaratne, is an assistant professor of Mathematics at Florida, Agricultural and Mechanical University, USA. He had his graduate education at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA, and his undergraduate education at the University of Peradeniya. He was previously attached to the Institute of Fundamental Studies and the University of Peradeniya.

Senior Lecturer in Sociology and MA Coordinator for the Department of Sociology at the University of Colombo. Dr. M.T.M. Mahees has obtained his bachelor’s and master’s in Sociology. He received his Ph. D. in Integrated Water Resource Management from the University of Peradeniya. His interests include Sociological Theories, Environmental Sociology, Political Ecology, Water Resources, Solid Waste Management, Community Mobilization, Research Methodology, Volunteerism, and Counseling. He has plenty of experience in university teaching and is currently the Senior Lecturer in Sociology and MA Coordinator for the Department of Sociology at the University of Colombo.