I am a Senior Lecturer attached to the Department of Agricultural Economics and Business Management, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. I received my Bachelor’s in Agricultural Technology and Management from the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya in 2009. I received my Masters in Agricultural Economics from the Postgraduate Institute of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya in 2011. I received my second Masters in Applied Economics from Oregon State University, USA in 2013. I completed my Ph.D. in Applied Economics from Oregon State University, USA in 2017. My current research interests include Quantitative Policy Analysis, Trade and Development, Applied General Equilibrium Modeling, and Applied Econometrics. I have worked and currently working on several projects under the National Research Council (NRC), World Bank AHEAD Research Area 3 Grants, Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) under the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), University Research Grants (URG), UNCTAD/ESCAP-ARTNeT, and FAO involving sustainability, natural resources, trade policies, production economics, food security, food systems, climate change and adaptation, and quantitative policy analysis which crosses into interdisciplinary topics. My teaching involves both undergraduate and postgraduate classes with a special focus on courses related to trade and development, natural resource and environmental economics, mathematical economics and econometrics.