Lead Scientist
Sujata is a specialist on assessing, planning, and building knowledge capacity and linking knowledge to practice. After a career as a university teacher and researcher in chemistry, she commenced capacity building work while serving as the administrator for the research support programs at the Board of Regents in Ohio. At the Regents she was responsible for managing a grant program of US$10 million per year to develop research capacity in the universities in the state of Ohio, USA.
Since then she has served as a strategic planning specialist at the Ohio State University, USA, developing an academic quality scorecard for that university; as the Analytic Director of a team of QRC Division of ORC Macro International, Bethesda, MD, USA, working on science resource surveys of the US National Science Foundation; Director General of Tertiary and Vocational Education Commission of Sri Lanka, revitalizing the implementation of an ADB-funded project on a national vocational qualification framework for Sri Lanka; and as consultant to the University Grants Commission of Sri Lanka where she prepared their Corporate Plan for 2003-2008 and brought in a grant for a model project on Quality through Connectedness for Universities in Small Developing Countries that was funded by the Research on Knowledge Systems (RoKS) program at the International Development Research Center (IDRC) of Canada.
She was also funded by the National Science Foundation of USA in 2002 as an independent scholar investigating ‘Best Practices in North-South Research Collaborations’.
She is currently involved in research on assessing and building capacity for telecom reform in Asia and knowledge to innovation in local government services in Sri Lanka. She also coordinates an online forum on education issues in Sri Lanka (www.educationforum.lk ).
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