Senior Professor Kapila Seneviratne has been appointed as the Chairman of the University Grants Commission (UGC).
Prof. Seneviratne, a renowned scholar was appointed as the Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies at the University of Kelaniya, in March 2022.
He holds a BSc in Chemistry from the University of Kelaniya and a Ph.D. from Wayne State University, USA, with postdoctoral studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada.
Prof. Seneviratne has also been a Commonwealth Fellow at the University of Leeds and a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
An expert in the chemistry and nutrition of edible oils, Prof. Seneviratne previously served as Dean of the Faculty of Science from 2014 to 2017 and has also served as the Chairman of both the Research Council and the Ethics Review Committee at the Kelaniya university.
The appointment comes after the Chairman and members of Sri Lanka’s University Grants Commission (UGC) tendered their resignations, earlier this week. (Newswire)