Ahilan Kadirgamar is a Senior Lecturer, at the Department of Sociology, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka. He holds a PhD in Anthropology from the Graduate Center, City University of New York, an MA in Economics from the New School for Social Research, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is a fortnightly columnist in the Daily Mirror and an Editorial Board Member of the Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences. His research interests include agrarian change, co-operatives, and economic alternatives, and regularly writes on the political economy of Sri Lanka in forums such as The Hindu and the Economic and Political Weekly in India. He is a Vice President of the Federation of University Teachers’ Associations (FUTA) (from 2022 to 2024), the Honorary Chair of the Northern Co-operative Development Bank (from 2019 to present), and a member of the International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs) (from 2023 to present). He served on the Central Bank of Sri Lanka appointed committee to draft the Economic Development Framework for a Northern Province Master Plan (August 2018).
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