Maitree Wickramasinghe

Maithree Wickramasinghe
Nationality	Sri Lankan
Fields	Gender and women's studies
Institutions	University of Kelaniya
Alma mater	King's College London, University of Colombo, University of London
Spouse	Ranil Wickremesinghe

Maithree Wickramasinghe is a Sri Lankan academic and senior lecturer at the Department of English of the University of Kelaniya and wife of Ranil Wickremasinghe former Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. She is also a visiting lecturer on gender and women's studies at other educational institutions including the University of Colombo.

Family and education

The only child of the late Senevi B. Wickremasinghe and Shiranee Wickremasinghe (nee Bandaratilaka) of Nawala, Koswatte. She graduated from King's College London with a BA (Hons) degree in the English and went on to complete her MA degree in Women’s Studies at the University of Colombo. She had gained her PhD degree from the Institute of Education, University of London specializing on feminist research methodology in Sri Lanka. In 1995 she married Ranil Wickremasinghe.

See also

• Ranil Wickremesinghe

Publications

• From Theory to Action - Women, Gender and Dvelopment (2000), published by Friedrich Ebert Steiftung.
• ITDG (Practical Action) book Gender Dimensions in Disaster Management (2003/2005),co-authored (with Madhavi Malalgoda Ariyabandhu)
• Beyond Glass Ceilings and Brick Walls – Gender at the Workplace, co-authored with Wijaya Jayatilake and published by the International Labor Organization (2006).

External links

• The Wickremasinghe Ancestry
• The Wijewardene Ancestry
• Maithree Wickramasinghe
• Academic Staff of the Department of English

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