Prof. Malik Ranasinghe has assumed duties as the new Chairman of the Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA).
A senior professor in civil engineering at the University of Moratuwa (UoM), Prof. Ranasinghe is also a chartered engineer, international professional engineer, and Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka, Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, Sri Lanka, Fellow of the Institute of Project Managers, Sri Lanka, and Graduate Member of Sri Lanka Institute of Directors.
Prof. Ranasinghe is the former Vice Chancellor of the UoM, a former Fellow of the National University of Singapore, a former Commission Member of the University Grants Commission, and a former Council Member of the National Research Council and the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU).
He obtained his PhD from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, in civil engineering economics as a Canadian Commonwealth scholar. He has over 130 research publications of which over 70 are international refereed. He is a Sri Lanka Tier-4 researcher and his Hirsch Index (h-Index) for research publications is 18.
Since 2003, he has been involved with the corporate sector as an independent non-executive director of publicly listed companies (PLCs).
At present, he is an Independent non-Executive Director of Access Engineering PLC, Resus Energy PLC, Teejay Lanka PLC, and United Motors Lanka PLC.
He was a former Chairman of Sampath Bank PLC and former non-Executive Director of the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE), Sampath Bank PLC, Hemas Power PLC, and Lanka IOC PLC. (NewsWire)