Dr Erandathie Pathiraja

Erandathie Pathiraja is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka (IPS) with research interests in the environment and natural resource policies, climate change, sustainable energy, and analysis of industries and markets.

She served as a member of the teaching panel of the Postgraduate Institute of Agriculture at the University of Peradeniya and as a visiting lecturer to the Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Colombo.

Her previous engagements are as a senior agricultural economist and an agricultural economist at the Coconut Research Institute of Sri Lanka, and research projects funded by the World Bank and the ADB. She has also served as the Secretary of the Sri Lanka Agricultural Economics Association.

Erandathie holds a BSc in Agriculture from the University of Peradeniya, an MPhil in Agricultural Economics from the Postgraduate Institute of Agriculture, and a PhD in Agricultural Economics from the University of Melbourne, Australia.