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About the Authors and Editors
Nexus between Youth, Unemployment, and Conflict: Perspectives from Sri Lanka. She has been a visiting lecturer at the University of Colombo for the post-graduate diploma in psychosocial work and counselling and a temporary lecturer at the Open University of Sri Lanka within the department of sociology. Her research interests include gender, youth, and children. She has also conducted research on globalisation and development issues. Nisha Arunatilake is a research fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka (IPS), She holds a BSc in computer science and mathematics from the University of the South and a PhD in economics from Duke University. Her work at the IPS has focused on employment, labor markets and human resource development. She has published in these areas both locally and internationally. Sunil Chandrasiri is professor of economics and the dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Colombo. He holds a BA (Honors) and MA in Economics from the University Colombo; an MBA from the University of Hartford, U.S.A; and a doctorate in industrial organization from Latrobe University, Australia. He has published in the areas of industry and trade policy, small- and medium-scale enterprises, tertiary education, and labor market issues in Sri Lanka. Ramani Gunatilaka is an adjunct research fellow of the Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University, and works as an independent consultant in Sri Lanka. She holds a BSc in economics from University College London, an MSc in development economics from the University of Oxford, and a doctorate in applied econometrics from Monash University. She has published in the areas of income distribution, poverty alleviation, rural development and labor market issues in Sri Lanka, and on the determinants of subjective well-being in rural and urban China. Dileni Gunewardena is a senior lecturer at the University of Peradeniya. She holds a BA (Honours) in Economics from the University of Peradeniya and a doctorate from American University, Washington, D.C. She has worked on issues relating to the measurement of poverty, child nutrition, gender wage inequality and ethnic inequality in Sri Lanka and in Vietnam. Siri Hettige is senior professor of sociology at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. He was the dean of the faculty of arts at the same university from 1999 to 2002. He also holds the post of director, Centre for Social