Chair & CEO
Rohan Samarajiva, Ph.D., is Chair and CEO of LIRNEasia. He is Senior Advisor to Sarvodaya (Sri Lanka’s leading Community Based Organization) and serves on the ICT Subcommittee of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce and on the Board of the Lanka Software Foundation. He is Board Member of Communication Policy Research south (CPRsouth), which seeks to identify and foster policy intellectuals active in ICT policy and regulation. He is a visiting faculty member at the TERI University in New Delhi and serves on the editorial boards of eight academic journals and writes an online business column.
Samarajiva was Team Leader at the Ministry for Economic Reform, Science and Technology (2002-04) responsible for infrastructure reforms, including participation in the design of the e Sri Lanka Initiative. He was Director General of Telecommunications in Sri Lanka (1998-99), a founder director of the ICT Agency of Sri Lanka (2003-05), Honorary Professor at the University of Moratuwa (2003-04), Visiting Professor of Economics of Infrastructures at the Delft University of Technology (2000-03) and Associate Professor of Communication and Public Policy at the Ohio State University (1987-2000).
Among his recent publications are ICT infrastructure in emerging Asia: Policy and regulatory roadblocks (New Delhi & Ottawa: Sage & IDRC, 2008), a co-edited volume of findings from LIRNEasia’s first cycle of research, and articles in the journals The Information Society, Information Technology and International Development, and New Media and Society.
He was a member of the intergovernmental Joint Study Group on the India-Sri Lanka Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (2003) and chaired the GATS Advisory Committee of the Department of Commerce, Sri Lanka (2002-2004). Samarajiva chaired the expert workshop on fixed-mobile interconnection for the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in 2000 and the first Digital Opportunity Forum for the Korea Agency for Digital Opportunity and Promotion (KADO) in 2006. He moderated the Ministerial Roundtable on ICT for Development at the Asian Forum on Information and Communication Technology Policies and Strategies in Kuala Lumpur in October 2003 and was an invited panelist at the World Bank infoDev sessions held in conjunction with the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis in November 2005.
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