{"id":11166,"date":"2025-12-02T13:33:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T08:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/?p=11166"},"modified":"2025-12-03T13:06:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T07:36:44","slug":"prof-ananda-rathnayake-assumes-duties-as-the-new-head-of-the-department-of-business-economics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/prof-ananda-rathnayake-assumes-duties-as-the-new-head-of-the-department-of-business-economics\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Ananda Rathnayake assumes Duties as the New Head of the Department of Business Economics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Prof. Ananda Rathnayake assumed duties as the new Head of the Department on December 1, 2025. He holds a Doctorate in Economics from the University of Colombo, with a specialisation in the technical and allocative efficiency of paddy farming in Sri Lanka.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

His research interests span agricultural economics, poverty alleviation, and macroeconomic policy analysis. Prof. Rathnayake has contributed to numerous peer-reviewed journals and has served as an editor and reviewer for several scholarly publications. He is also a prolific author, with several books on economics and development published in 2024.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Department warmly congratulates Prof. Rathnayake on his appointment and extends its best wishes as he undertakes this new leadership role.<\/strong>

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Prof. Ananda Rathnayake assumed duties as the new Head of the Department on December 1, 2025. He holds a Doctorate in Economics from the University of Colombo, with a specialisation in the technical and allocative efficiency of paddy farming in Sri Lanka. His research interests span agricultural economics, poverty alleviation, and macroeconomic policy analysis. Prof. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-degree-programme-news","category-e-notice-board","category-top-stories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/My-Canva-covers.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7odTZ-2U6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11166"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11326,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11166\/revisions\/11326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}