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Malathy Knight-John

Malathy Knight-John is a Research Fellow and Head of Industry, Public Enterprise Reform and Regulatory Policy research at the IPS. Her research interests include public enterprise reform/privatization, utility regulation, competition policy, economic governance and the political economy of reform and she has published extensively in these areas both locally and internationally.

Malathy Knight-John has also held advisory positions for the government, the private sector and key donor agencies on policy issues such as the development of a national industrial policy framework, rehabilitation of sick industries, physical infrastructure reforms, telecommunications liberalization and ICT development, Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) and national disaster management.

  
Malathy Knight-John
 Advisory Work
 Publications
 Reports
 Presentations
 
   
Malathy Knight-John holds a BA in Economics from Swarthmore College, USA and an MA in Economics from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. She is currently reading for a PhD in Development Policy and Management, focusing on The Political Economy of Telecommunications Reform and Regulation in Developing Countries: The Case of Sri Lanka, at the University of Manchester, U.K.
  
 

Advisory Work

Government of Sri Lanka

  • Policy Development Steering Committees on ICT/Telecom Development and Land Transport
    Member of the Comittee
    Government of Sri Lanka
    2002-2004
  • Consultative Group on Liberalization of International Telephony, Licensing Conditions and Rates for External Gateway Operators (EGOs)
    Member
    Telecom Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka
    2003
  • Technical Evaluation Committee on Market-dominance based Regulation for Telecom Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka
    Member of the Comittee
    Ministry of Economic Reforms, Science and Technology
    2003

International Organizations

  • CUTS on Competition Policy and Law, Economic Regulation, Consumer Protection, Investment Policy and Services Liberalization
    Member
    CUTS-CCIER Consumer Unity & Trust Society, India
    2006 – to date
  • Center on Regulation and Competition, IDPM, University of Manchester
    Research Associate
    2003- 2006

Recent Publications

  • “Making a Business out of a Village Phone” in Rohan Samarajiva et al (eds.), Connectivity Beyond Technology, Sage India, 2007.
  • “WTO Principles on Telecommunications Services Liberalization: A Case Study on Telecommunications Interconnection in Sri Lanka” (with C. Ellepola) in Peter Gallagher et al (eds.), Managing the Challenges of WTO Participation, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
  • “Assessing Privatization in Sri Lanka: Distribution and Governance” (with P.P.A.W. Athukorala) in John Nellis et al (eds.), Reality Check: The Distributional Impact of Privatization in Developing Countries, Center for Global Development, Washington D.C., 2005.
  • “Sri Lanka’s Telecommunications Industry: From Privatization to Anti-Competition?” (with S. Jayasuriya) in Allan Brown et al (eds.), Telecommunications Reform in the Asia-Pacific: Economic and Regulatory Experiences, Edward Elgar, 2004.
  • “Privatization and Regulation” in Saman Kelegama (ed.), Economic Policy in Sri Lanka: Issues and Debates – a Festschrift in Honour of Gamani Corea, Sage Publications, India, 2004.
  • “Competition, Regulation and Regulatory Governance in Sri Lanka” in P. Cook et al (eds.), Leading Issues in Competition, Regulation and Development, Edward Elgar, 2004.
  • “What Type of Competition Policy and Law Should a Developing Country Have?”, South Asia Economic Journal, Vol. 5, No.1, 2004.
  • “Adopting Regulatory Impact Assessment in Sri Lanka: A Tool for Better Regulatory Policy?”, Law and Governance, 3, 2003/2004.

 

Recent Reports

  • “The Impact of Corruption on Investment in Sri Lanka” (with Y. Wijemanne), prepared for and funded by the United States Agency for International Development - Associates in Rural Development (USAID-ARD), 2007.
  • “Participatory Concept Paper for an Effective Industrial Policy Framework” (with S. Jayasinghe), prepared for the Industrial Association of Sri Lanka, funded by World Bank, Washington D.C., U.S.A., 2007.
  • “Sri Lanka’s Telecommunications Sector: A Tale of Missed Opportunities?” (in collaboration with LIRNEasia) prepared for LIRNEasia and funded by International Development Research Centre, Canada, 2007.
  • “Effective States and Engaged Societies” (with A. Rajapakse), prepared for and funded by World Bank Washington D.C., U.S.A., 2006.
  • “National Early Warning System: Sri Lanka (NEWS): A Participatory Concept Paper for the Design of an Effective All-Hazard Public Warning System” (in collaboration with LIRNEasia and the Vanguard Foundation Sri Lanka), prepared for the Government of Sri Lanka, funded by LIRNEasia, Colombo, 2005.

Recent Presentations

  • Political Economy of Regulation in Telecom Sector
    Research Symposium on “Political Economy Constraints in Regulatory Regimes in Developing Countries” organized by CUTS
    New Delhi, India
    22-24 March, 2007
  • Fixed and Mobile Sector Indicators
    WDR Expert Forum on “ICT Sector and Regulatory Performance Indicators” organized by the Institute of South East Asian Studies, Singapore and LIRNEasia,
    Singapore
    2-3 March, 2007
  • Improving Telecom Performance in Sri Lanka: Policy Actions
    “CPRsouth 2007: Research for Improving ICT Governance in the Asia-Pacific Conference” organized by LIRNEasia and the National College of Public Administration and Governance, University of the Philippines, Diliman
    Asian Institute of Management, Manila
    19-21 January, 2007
  • Embedding Competition Principles in Telecommunications Regulation: Issues and Challenges
    “Competition Policy and Law in Asia” organized by CUTS
    Hanoi, Vietnam
    16-17 August, 2005
  • RIA: A Tool for Better Regulatory Governance in Sri Lanka
    “Asia Roundtable for Implementing Regulatory Reform in South Asia” organized by DFID, U.K.
    Dhaka, Bangladesh
    13-14 June, 2005