Gunewardena, Dileni - Centre for Global Social Policy

Dileni Gunewardena is the Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. She teaches gender economics, labour economics, and economic development. Her research includes empirical analyses of human capital, gender and labour markets, ethnic inequality, poverty, and child nutrition. She has a doctorate in economics from American University, and has been a Fulbright Scholar, a Brookings Institution Echidna Global Scholar, a Global Development Network (GDN) award winner and a visiting scholar at American University’s Programme in Gender Analysis in Economics. She is a PEP Research Fellow and a Research Associate at Verité Research.