Dr. Anuruddha Kankanamge serves as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics and Statistics. He also serves as the present Postgraduate Programme Coordinator in Economics. He holds a B.Sc. (Agriculture) from the University of Peradeniya and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Oklahoma, U.S.A. He teaches Industrial Organization, Econometrics, Research Methods in Economics and Energy Economics. His research interests are economic regulation, government procurement auctions and energy market analysis. Prior to joining the Department, he has also served as an Assistant Agricultural Economist at the Coconut Cultivation Board of Sri Lanka and a Research Officer at the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Colombo.