Sunimalee Madurawala

Sunimalee Madurawala is a Research Economist at the Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka (IPS). She has over 15 years of research experience in the areas of gender, health economics, and population studies. She has served as a consultant to bilateral and multilateral agencies and private foundations such as the Asian Development Bank (ADB), International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Cancer Research UK, and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Sunimalee has contributed to several national publications, including the UNDP’s Millennium Development Goals Country Report 2014 Sri Lanka, the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Skills Development’s Youth and Development: Realizing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for Sri Lankan Youth (2014) report, and the UNDP’s Sri Lanka Human Development Report 2012: Bridging Regional Disparities for Human Development report.She has authored several peer-reviewed journal articles, working papers, book chapters, and blogs.

Sunimalee is the recipient of the Australia Awards Fellowship on Developing Economic Research to Support Priority Economic and Social Goals (Sri Lanka) at the Griffith University, Australia (2016/2017) awarded by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), the Government of Australia and the Fellowship on Asia-Pacific Capacity Development on Gender and Macroeconomic Issues- Second Regional Intensive Course, awarded by UNDP Asia-Pacific Regional Centre & Ochanomizu University, Japan (2011).

Sunimalee holds a BA (Economics Special) degree with a first-class and a Master’s in Economics (MEcon) degree from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. She is also partly qualified in the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA-UK).