Prof. Amaratunge appointed to Laugfs Gas Board

Prof. Sampath Priyantha Perera Amaratunge has been appointed to the Board of Laugfs Gas Plc as an Independent Non-Executive Director.

Prof. Amaratunga, a visionary and builder of organisations, astute university administrator, renowned academic, leading business consultant and humanist is the Vice Chancellor of University of Sri Jayewardenepura for a second consecutive term in office.

He holds a BA (Hons.) in Economics from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, MA in Economics from the University of Colombo, MSc. in Economic of Rural Development from Saga National University and PhD from Kogoshima National University in Japan. He counts over 27 years’ service at the University of Sri Jayewardenepura. He is an authority in rural economic development. Prof. Amaratunga has won several awards including the prestigious Research Excellence Award (2002) of the Kyushu Society of Rural Economics, Japan. He has over 75 referred publications to his credit, both locally and internationally. 

Having provided yeomen service as the Dean, Faculty of Management Studies and Commerce, University of Sri Jayewardenepura (2008-2014), in completing several important infrastructure development projects and setting up specialty facility units for undergraduate and postgraduate level education, he continued his organisation building endeavours as Vice Chancellor (2014-2017) of the university. He spearheaded the establishment of two new facilities of study - Engineering and Technology - to the already existing cluster of five (Faculties of Arts and Humanities, Management Studies and Commerce, Applied Science, Medicine and Graduate Studies).

He also sits on the Boards of Management of several prominent corporates as an independent director.