Niranjala Hulugalla Wanninayake Mudiyanselage

Niranjala Hulugalla Wanninayake Mudiyanselage

Presentation Title: Assessing village people’s preferences of gender-stereotypic candidates for Village Development Program Committees: The case of rural Sri Lanka

Graduate School of Economics, Ritsumeikan University, Japan

Past Speaker

Mrs. Hulugalla W.M. Niranjala is a PhD candidate in Economics at the Graduate School of Economics, Ritsumeikan University, Japan, and an Officer of the Sri Lanka Administrative Service. She holds a B.Sc. in Agriculture from Wayamba University, Sri Lanka, an M.Sc. from Hiroshima University, Japan, and a Diploma in Public Administration from the Sri Lanka Institute of Development Administration. Her research interests focus on social capital, voluntary participation, unethical behaviors, leadership, and gender in rural development. Currently, she is working on a project on leadership and gender in rural development in Sri Lanka.