Rohan Samarajiva

Rohan Samarajiva is Executive Director of LIRNEasia [pronounced Learn Asia], a regional Information and Communication Technology (ICT) policy and regulation research and capacity building organization, based in Colombo but active across South and Southeast Asia. He is Senior Advisor to the Networking Grassroot Movement of Sarvodaya (Sri Lanka’s leading Community Based Organization) and serves on the ICT Subcommittee of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce and on the Board of the Lanka Software Foundation. He is a visiting faculty member at the TERI University in New Delhi and serves on the editorial boards of seven academic journals and writes an online business column. He also serves as policy advisor to the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications of Bangladesh.

Samarajiva was Team Leader at the Ministry for Economic Reform, Science and Technology (2002-04) responsible for infrastructure reforms, including participation in the design of the e Sri Lanka Initiative. He was Director General of Telecommunications in Sri Lanka (1998-99), a founder director of the ICT Agency of Sri Lanka (2003-05), Visiting Professor of Economics of Infrastructures at the Delft University of Technology (2000-03) and Associate Professor of Communication and Public Policy at the Ohio State University (1987-2000).

He was a member of the intergovernmental Joint Study Group on the India-Sri Lanka Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (2003) and chaired the GATS Advisory Committee of the Department of Commerce, Sri Lanka (2002-2004). Samarajiva chaired the expert workshop on fixed-mobile interconnection for the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in 2000 and the first Digital Opportunity Forum for the Korea Agency for Digital Opportunity and Promotion (KADO) in 2006. He moderated the Ministerial Roundtable on ICT for Development at the Asian Forum on Information and Communication Technology Policies and Strategies in Kuala Lumpur in October 2003 and was an invited panelist at the World Bank infoDev sessions held in conjunction with the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis in November 2005.

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