Prof. Ranjith Senaratne, Senior Professor of Crop Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ruhuna, possesses over 40 years of experience in higher education, including teaching, research and administration, and community development. He has held several senior administrative positions with distinction for a period of over 20 years, i.e. the posts of Dean, Faculty of Agriculture and Vice-Chancellor, University of Ruhuna, Chairman of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Directors, Chairman of the Ocean University and Vice-Chairman, University Grants Commission.
As Vice-Chancellor, University of Ruhuna, he has been strongly committed to promoting academic excellence, high impact research, creative enterprise, strategic partnership with industry, community development, and international cooperation. In recognition of his outstanding contribution in education, science, community development and international cooperation, the University of Durham, UK conferred a honorary Doctorate (honoris causa) on him in 2007.
Prof. Senaratne has been the recipient of several internationally competitive and prestigious research grants, i.e. from the Board on Science and Technology for International Development (BOSTID) of the National Research Council of the USA and has held a number of coveted fellowships, including the Andre Mayer Fellowship of the FAO and the Marie Curie Fellowship of the European Community. He has over 100 research communications and papers to his credit and has written and edited about 10 books related to agriculture, higher education, science & technology, and national development.
Prof. Senaratne has provided strategic, inspirational and operational leadership to higher educational institutions, and he is a visionary leader and an institution builder.
- Prof. Dakshina G. De Silva, Professor of Economics of Lancaster University, UK visits NSF (108) 2023-11-30 11:11:05
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- NSF Chairman graced the research congress of the PGIS, University of Peradeniya in 2023 (154) 2023-11-23 10:19:40
- Prof. Shanika Karunasekera, Professor of University of Melbourne, Australia visits NSF (170) 2023-11-23 09:35:19
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- NSF Chairman, Chief Guest at the World Food Day commemoration at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya (203) 2023-11-10 08:09:41
- Dr. Ranil Coorey, Associate Professor of Curtin University, Australia visits NSF (608) 2023-10-10 13:16:55
- Prof. Charitha Pattiaratchi, University of Western Australia held discussion with Chairman of the NSF on the proposed national conference on Asian Tsunami 2004 in December 2024 (1007) 2023-10-06 07:38:15
- Dr. Ranjith Dharmathilake, University of Visual and Performing Arts presents his book “Varna” to Chairman of NSF (641) 2023-10-06 06:51:34
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- Prof. Tissa Illangasekare, Colorado, USA visits the NSF (1279) 2023-04-18 06:34:36
- The Open University of Sri Lanka poised to establish strategic partnership with the NSF (1640) 2023-02-09 07:26:48
- Address of the General President SLAAS 2023 (1903) 2023-01-15 19:21:19
- Prof. Ranjith Senaratne, Chairman of the NSF, inducted as the 82nd General President of the SLAAS (1347) 2023-01-15 05:34:11
- The NSF join forces with the People's Bank to promote start-up ecosystems and innovation (1070) 2023-01-08 06:00:24
- New opportunities for academic cooperation with Norwegian Universities (1277) 2022-12-31 14:02:24
- NSF Chairman Chief Guest at the Intl. Chemistry Olympiad Champions Awards Ceremony (969) 2022-12-29 12:12:42
- NSF, Sri Lanka looks forward to forging partnership with NSF, China (1054) 2022-12-27 08:35:59
- NSF Chairman delivered keynote address on the Postgraduate Day of 2022, University of Moratuwa (1752) 2022-12-27 06:40:26
- Prof. Harsha K. Chelliah, University of Virginia, USA held discussion with the NSF on future energy landscape of Sri Lanka (1514) 2022-11-23 06:22:30
- ශ්රී ලංකාව සංවර්ධිත රටක් බවට පත් කිරීම සඳහා විද්යාව සහ තාක්ෂණය පෙරමුණ ගත යුතුය - මහාචාර්ය රංජිත් සේනාරත්න, සභාපති, ජාතික විද්යා පදනම (1585) 2022-11-22 13:22:52
- NSF Chairman was Chief Guest at the EXPO-2022 of the Uva-Wellassa University (1277) 2022-11-11 06:53:57
- Prof. Dilantha Fernando, a Dean, Professor and Phytopathologist of the Univ. of Manitoba, Canada, visits the NSF (1211) 2022-11-07 05:34:32
- NSF Chairman meets with Prof. Siva Sivanathan, Director of the Microphysics Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA (1206) 2022-11-07 05:23:12
- Global Digital Platform established by NSF harnesses another expatriate scientists to support enhancing research skills of school children in rural areas (983) 2022-10-31 07:25:26
- National Instrument Database (NID) (2177) 2022-09-20 14:36:20
- Chairman, NSF was the Chief Guest of the CVCD Excellence Awards ceremony held at the BMICH on 02 Sep 2022 (1584) 2022-09-09 12:28:15
- Overcoming economic crisis and rebuilding economy: A clarion call (Part 1) (2062) 2022-07-20 07:44:17
- Overcoming economic crisis and rebuilding economy: A clarion call (Part 2) (2107) 2022-07-20 07:32:53
- Immediate and short-term interventions proposed to mitigate impact of current economic crisis on food and nutritional security (2127) 2022-07-20 07:22:30
- Activities of the Research Arm (1262) 2022-05-16 11:22:40
- NSF establishes a credible high-profile multi-disciplinary forum to serve as a guiding force for national development (2104) 2022-05-03 08:27:48
- Visit of Cuban ambassador to NSF paves the way for developing a robust pharmaceutical and vaccine industry in Sri Lanka (2207) 2022-04-27 07:21:24
- Visit of Prof. Jayantha Obeysekera of Florida International University, USA to NSF opens up new avenues for academic cooperation (1878) 2022-03-08 12:26:19
- NSF launches a Global Digital Platform at the BMICH under the patronage of the PM (2803) 2022-03-07 14:29:45
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- NSF Chairman visits the Kotelawala Defence University (2107) 2022-03-04 13:09:17
- Research Arm (2695) 2022-01-08 07:20:53
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