Senior Research Manager
Sriganesh Lokanathan is currently managing the research on the nexus of ICTs and agricultural markets. He is exploring sustainable forward market mechanisms in perishable agricultural commodities South Asia with a focus on Sri Lanka. In addition he is involved in the drafting of Bangladesh’s new telecommunications policy as well as understanding the telecommunications regulatory environment in Afghanistan.
He is actively involved with Harsha de Silva, Ph.D. on the Govi Gnana Seva (Farmer Knowledge Service) project, a unique ICT for development project aiming to reduce information asymmetries in the agricultural sector in Sri Lanka as well as issues related to the use of ICTs for enhancing rural livelihoods. Previously, he was one of the initiators of the current supply-side indicators research work being carried out by LIRNEasia.
He has previously worked as a consultant and as a software architect in technology companies Sri Lanka and the US. Prior to that, he has worked as a researcher at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, MIT’s Laboratory for Financial Engineering and MIT’s Media Lab on various technology projects.
His specialties include telecommunications and ICT policy and regulation as well as ICT4D (specifically the use of ICTs to improve rural livelihoods).
He holds a Bachelors degree in Computer Science, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy of the National University of Singapore.
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