Professor Stanley W R de A Samarasinghe
Executive Chairman
Research Fellow
Professor S W R de A Samarasinghe (Ph.D. Cambridge) is the Executive
Chairman of GV. He teaches International Development and Economics
at the Payson Center for International Development and Technology
Transfer of Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He was
Takemi Research Fellow in International Health at the Harvard School
of Public Health in 1985-86 and Cornell Distinguished Visiting Professor
at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania USA in 1989-90, while he was
still a member of the faculty in the Department of Economics at
the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.
In the field of Economics Professor Samarasinghe has had a special
interest in Development Economics, Economics of Conflict and Health
Economics. He teaches these specialties for Tulane University both
in New Orleans as well as in universities in other parts of the
world where Tulane has graduate teaching programmes.
A sample of his publications include The Political Economy of Internal
Conflict in Sri Lanka, Netherlands Institute of International Affairs
(Clingendael), The Hague, 2005); (co-author) Coordination of International
Humanitarian Assistance in Tsunami-Affected Countries, (UN - OCHA
2006); Historical Dictionary of Sri Lanka (Scarecrow Press, 1998);
(co-editor) Secessionist Movements in Comparative Perspective (Pinter,
London, 1990), Economic Dimensions of Ethnic Conflict in Comparative
Perspective (St Martin’s Press, New York, 1991), Peace Accords
and Ethnic Conflict (St Martin’s Press, 1993), and Democratization
in South Asia – The First Fifty Years (ICES and Ford Foundation
1998), and Corruption and Governance in South Asia (ICES and The
Asia Foundation, Colombo).
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