CHAPTER 4
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| Priyanthi Fernando, MA (Leicester) | |||||
| Executive Director / Management Team She has over 20 years experience in the development sector in Sri Lanka and overseas, and has specialised in social development issues. As the Executive Director, Priyanthi provides overall leadership and direction to the CEPA team. | |||||
| Interests: Gender, technology and infrastructure, policy advocacy, communications and networking. | |||||
| Azra Abdul Cader, MA (ISS) | |||||
| Team Leader, Poverty Assessment & Knowledge Management Programme / Management Team Azra studied Sociology at the University of Delhi, India and went on to do her masters in Development Studies specialising in rural livelihoods at the Institute of Social Studies, The Netherlands. As the Team Leader of the Poverty Assessment and Knowledge Management, she is responsible for management of the activities within the programme. | |||||
| Interests: Rural livelihoods and development, conflict and displacement, gender, child issues and urban poverty. | |||||
| Karin Fernando, MA (Brandeis) | |||||
| Team Leader, Poverty Impact Monitoring Programme / Management Team Karin has a MA Sustainable International Development from Brandeis University, USA. She has 8 years experience working in development project implementation and environmental management with NGOs, and multilateral agencies. As Team Leader of the Poverty Impact Monitoring Programme, she is responsible for developing the PIM programme, its outreach and advisory services. | |||||
| Interests: Sustainable development, environmental management, and communications. | |||||
| Neranjana Gunetilleke, MPhil (Sussex) | |||||
| Senior Professional / Management Team Neranjana received her training in Economics at the University of Colombo and moved on to Development Studies at IDS. She has ten years professional experience in poverty research and working with development programmes to maximize the impact of their activities on poverty. Neranjana works as a Senior Professional on assignments in both the PIM and PAM programmes as well as providing management support. | |||||
| Interests: poverty impact monitoring, rural infrastructure and training. | |||||
| Prashan Thalayasingam, MA (Sussex) | |||||
| Team Leader, Poverty and Conflict Programme / Member Management Team Prashan studied International Relations and Development Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. He is responsible for the management of the PAC Programme and has coordinated the studies Post-Conflict Justice Issues in Sri Lanka and Moving Out of Poverty in Conflict Affected Areas, the Making Peace, Keeping Peace work in the Puttalam District and also the more recent partnerships with the Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (CRISE), GTZ etc. | |||||
| Interests: international organisation of peace and war, post-conflict reconstruction and development and post-conflict justice. | |||||
| Kannan Arunasalam MA (Cambridge) | |||||
| Senior Professional, Poverty and Conflict Programme (until December 2008) Kannan studied psychology and law and have 6 years of experience as a media lawyer in London. He has developed an interest in different ways to communicate research messages. He manages the development of the Poverty and Conflict Timeline at CEPA. | |||||
| Interests: conflict, human rights and alternative communications | |||||
| Nilakshi De Silva, MPA (Princeton) | |||||
| Senior Professional, Poverty Impact Monitoring Programme Nilakshi is a development professional with ten years experience working in the public and non-government sectors as well as multilateral agencies. As a member of the PIM team, she task manages assignments while also contributing to conceptualisation, analysis, reporting of other assignments undertaken by CEPA. Nilakshi also is involved in the areas of fund raising and strategic directions of the PIM Programme. | |||||
| Interests: Development and public policy, post-conflict reconstruction, evaluation and impact monitoring. | |||||
| Fiona Remnant, Msc (Bath) | |||||
| Senior Professional, Poverty Assessment & Knowledge Management Programme (until December 2008) Fiona studied languages and politics at the University of Bath, UK, returning later to study International Policy Analysis. She has experience in lobbying and advocacy in development and focuses on communications and policy influence in CEPA. | |||||
| Interests: communications, lobbying and advocacy, the role of international institutions in development. | |||||
| Shivapragasam Shivakumaran | |||||
| Senior Professional, Poverty Assessment & Knowledge Management Programme Shivakumaran has worked on issues relating to welfare reform in the state sector that involved developing a selection criteria mechanism to identify the poor and undertaken large scale quantitative surveys. He is currently working on developing a database on poverty resources and in the quantitative analysis of monitoring the southern transport development project. | |||||
| Interests: Management Information System (MIS) and quantitative research methodologies. | |||||
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