Former Vice
Chancellor of the Colombo University Prof. Kshanika Hirimburegama assumed
duties as the new Chairperson of the University Grants Commission (UGC). Prof.
Hirimburegama succeeds Prof. Gamini Samaranayake as UGC head, and is the eighth
to hold the post. She served in the UGC over the past few years and is a
specialist on plant tissue culture, having authored some 35 scientific
journals, five books and 40 research documents.
Professor Kshanika Hirimburegama was appointed as the new Chairperson of the University Grants Commission (UGC) by Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa. She is the first woman to be appointed as Chairperson of the UGC.
At the moment Kshanika Hirimburegama is working
the Vice Chancellor of the Colombo University.
She will assume duties as the new head of the
UGC when the current UGC Chairman Professor Gamini Samaranayake retires at the
end of January.
About Prof. Kshanika Hirimburegama
About Prof. Kshanika Hirimburegama
Sannas Mudiyanselage Kshanika Kumari Hirimburegama was born January 1, 1958 is a Sri Lankan academic.
She is the current Vice-Chancellor of the University of Colombo. Prior to the appointment
she was Head of the Department of Plant Sciences and a Member of the University Grants Commission of Sri
Lanka.
She was born and raised in Colombo and She is the daughter of Nalini
Ratnayaka and Dr. Punchi Bandara Sannasgala, an academic researcher on Sinhala
language, Sinhala literature, Pali and Sanskrit. He is the author of `Sinhala
Saahithya Wanshaya' in the 1960s. She is the fourth out of five daughters born
to the Sannasgala family. Her early education was at Visakha Vidyalaya, Colombo.
She entered University
of Colombo in 1977 and specialised in Botany. She then entered the Post Graduate
Institute of Agriculture (PGIA), Peradeniya and passed out in 1985 with her
Masters in Agricultural Sciences. In the same year she left for Belgium to join
the Catholic
University of Leuven for her PhD. Kshanika married Wijaya Hiriburegama in 1986 whom she met at University of Peradeniya.
She and her husband returned to Sri Lanka in 1989 and joined the Botany
Department in Colombo University as a Senior Lecturer in January, 1990. She was
later made the Head of the Plant Sciences Department before she was appointed
as Vice-chancellor in January, 2008.
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