BIO

Samanthi Senaratne is a Senior Professor in Accounting at the Department of Accounting, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka. She specializes in accounting education, corporate governance, and corporate reporting. She holds a Bachelors Honours Degree in Accounting, an MBA, and a PhD in Finance. She is a prolific researcher and has published widely in the areas of accounting education, corporate governance, corporate sustainability accounting and integrated reporting in leading international peer-reviewed indexed journals. She has co-edited the book ‘Integrated Reporting (IR): Business Cases for Sustainability in South Asia’ published by Springer International Publishing and has co-authored several book chapters with reputed international book publishers such as Springer and Routledge. She has won awards in recognition of her research work and received research grants from external agencies such as World Bank and Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), UK. She regularly participates as a panelist in various local and international forums on accounting education, quality assurance in education, and integrated reporting. Presently, she serves as a member of the Education Global Forum Panel of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) UK, and Integrated Reporting Council of CA Sri Lanka. She is actively engaged in policy development and implementation of quality assurance activities of universities and national educational institutions in Sri Lanka, and in national curriculum development and assessment process of the Ministry of Education, Sri Lanka. She served as the Founding Director of Quality Assurance of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka.