Prof. Ramanie Jayatilaka
Secretary
Prof. Ramanie Jayatilaka is an Associate Professor in Sociology (Department of Sociology) and Former Head of the Department of Sociology at the University of Colombo. She is a Council Member of the National Institute of Social Development, a Board Member of the Centre for Women’s Research, (CENWOR) and Board Member of Sri Lanka Center for Development Facilitation (SLCDF). She has been working in the area of international labour migration since 1998.
She was a member of the study group that wrote a report on "Migrant Care Workers" for the Ministry of Education and Scientific Affairs in Japan in 2006. She is a member of the Asia Pacific Migration Net Work. More recently she has been working on Human Trafficking. Prof. Jayatilaka has an M.Phil. from University of Sussex and Ph.D from Jawaharlal Nehru University.
