Board of Directors

Professor Lakshman Ratnayake brings more than 40 years’ experience to the education industry and currently he is the Chairman of SLIIT City Uni. He is an Emeritus professor at University of Moratuwa. He is also a Board member of the National Research Council and the IESL College of Engineering. Professor Ratnayake is an Adjunct Professor of Civil Engineering at University of Calgary, Canada and served as an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Utah State University, USA. He was the Vice Chairman of the UGC, the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and the Head of the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Moratuwa.

He worked as the Project Director of the World Bank funded project on Higher Education for the Twenty- First Century (HETC) and the Project Director of the World Bank funded IRQUE Project. Professor Lakshman L. Ratnayake was also the President of the ..

Prof. Mahesha Kapurubandara is the Director Academic Affairs at SLIIT City Uni. She is responsible for providing strategy, leadership, administration and overseeing the Office of the Dean International, SLIIT.

Prior to taking up the role of Dean at SLIIT, she has worked at Western Sydney University (WSU), Australia for 5 years and also served as a visiting professor at University of Uppsala, Sweden and University of Nanjing, China. She has extensive experience in lecturing in Australia. She is also an adjunct research fellow at WSU, Australia.

Prof. Kapurubandara is acclaimed for several awards in the Information, Communication and Technology Field. She is the first woman in Sri Lanka to receive a Professorship for Information Communication Technologies (ICT), and was also recognized by Women in Management, Sri Lanka, with the award of their Silver Medal at the ‘6t..

Mr. Dumindra Ratnayake is presently the Chairman of the 1990 Suwaseriya Foundation, which provides an Emergency Pre Hospital Care Ambulance service across Sri Lanka. Prior to that he was Chairman of the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka. Prior to being appointed to the chair of the BOI, he served as a Board Director of the BOI as well as of the Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA). A respected mentor to young engineering graduates and an active angel investor, Dumindra has played a pivotal role in assisting several local entrepreneurs receive the backing needed to create successful companies.

Dumindra was the Chief Executive Officer of Etisalat Lanka (Pvt) Limited, the pioneering mobile telecommunications network in Sri Lanka, where he served for over 25 years. He handled a variety of roles from planning, expansion, and customer service to CTO, cul..