Kalpa Rajapaksha has been a Lecturer in the Department of Economics and Statistics at the University of Peradeniya since 2015, where he teaches Marxist Political Economy. He earned his Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Economics from the same department and served as a Temporary Assistant Lecturer from 2013 before joining the academic staff as a lecturer. His undergraduate dissertation, A Deconstruction of the Sri Lankan Government’s Postwar Economics, Human Development Model, and Its Ideology (2013), was supervised by Professor Sumanasiri Liyanage, a distinguished economist and former faculty member of the University of Peradeniya. Rajapaksha received both his Master of Arts in Global Political Economy and Finance (2018) and his PhD in Economics (2022) from the Department of Economics at The New School for Social Research, New York City, USA. During his doctoral studies, he taught Karl Marx’s Capital, Volume I, as a Teaching Fellow and worked as a Research Assistant under the supervision of Professor Anwar Shaikh, a world-renowned economist in political economy and the heterodox economics tradition. His research interests span Marxism, Political Economy, Philosophy, the History of Economic Thought, Digital Capitalism, and Artificial Intelligence.
