Prof. Rohan Samarajiva
Director of External Programs of the Learning Initiatives for Reforms in Network Economies (LIRNE.NET)

Professor Rohan Samarajiva is Director of External Programs of the Learning Initiatives for Reforms in Network Economies (LIRNE.NET, a collaboration between leading universities of Denmark, the Netherlands, South Africa and the UK); and a member of the management team of the World Dialogue on Regulation for Network Economies (www.regulateonline.org). From mid 2002 to mid 2004 he assisted the government of Sri Lanka as Team Leader of the Public Interest Program Unit of the Ministry for Economic Reform, Science and Technology. His responsibilities included implementation of infrastructure reforms including telecommunications and contributing to the implementation of infrastructure for the e Sri Lanka Initiative. He is a director of the ICT Agency of Sri Lanka and the Lanka Software Foundation and is in the process of establishing the Asian presence of LIRNE.NET in the form of a non-profit entity to be known as LIRNEasia. He is an Honorary Professor at the University of Moratuwa.

Samarajiva was Director General of the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission in Sri Lanka (1998-99), Associate Professor of Communication and Public Policy at the Ohio State University (1987-2000), and Visiting Professor of Economics of Infrastructures at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands (2000-2003). He was a member of the Study Group on the India-Sri Lanka Economic Partnership Agreement (2003).