Damrivi Foundation

Patron

The Most Venerable Aggamahapandita Tirikunamale Ananda Mahanayaka Thero

Siri Vajiraramaya, Bambalapitiya.

Advisory Panel

VenerableTapovanaye Sutadhara Thero

MA, Director, Ventura Buddhist Studies Centre, California, USA

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Mr. P.M.A. Sirimane

FCA, MBA

Mr. Maithri Sirimane is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka, holds a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Swinburne, Victoria, Australia. He has over 45 years experience in Management and Finance in the Commercial Sector and currently functions as a Group Director of a large conglomerate in Sri Lanka.

He has served as a Member of several Committees of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka . He is one of the founders of Damrivi Foundation and served as a founder trustee of Damrivi for 10 years from its inception.

Yuki Sirimane

Attorney-at-law,
MA, PhD

Mrs.Yuki Sirimane is an Attorney-at-Law and Solicitor of England and Wales. She has been a corporate lawyer for over 20 years. She also holds a Doctorate in Buddhist Studies from the Postgraduate Institute of Pali and Buddhist Studies, University of Kelaniya. She is one of the founders of Damrivi Foundation and steered Damrivi Foundation from its inception as a founder trustee and Director Operations.

Preminda Niranjan Fernando

BSC (Eng), MPhil (Eng)
D.I.C. PhD (London), Former Manager, Energy Division East Asian Development Bank.

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Board Of Executive Trustees

Chairman:
Board of Trustees

Professor Asanga Tilakaratne

Maha-saddhammajotika-dhaja (Myanmar), MA, PhD. University of Hawai’i

Emeritus Professor of Pali and Buddhist Studies and founder Head of the Department of Buddhist Studies at University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. In 2003, with Maithri Sirimane and Yuki Sirimane, he founded Damrivi Foundation aiming at spiritual, social and economic development.

Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekera

RWP,USP Mphil, Ph D Rtd. Chief of Staff of Sri Lanka Navy, Ex-Director General of Civil Defence Force.

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Soma De Silva, PhD.

Soma De Silva is a former UNICEF South Asia Regional Monitoring and Evaluation Adviser. She is a founder member and a two times president of the Sri Lanka Evaluation Association. She has served as thePresident of the International Organisation for Collaboration in Evaluation (IOCE) and as the founderco-chair of EvalPartners, which is a global movement for promoting development evaluation. Her work in promoting institutionalisation of evaluation training in South Asia was instrumental in establishing a postgraduate diploma in Evaluation at the University of Sri Jayawardenepura, the first university program in evaluation in Sri Lanka. Soma worked with a Select Committee of the Parliament to draft the National Evaluation Bill.Besides many official publications, she has authored the book “Theory of Change for Development Success”to help using evaluation in development interventions. Besides her professional focus on development cooperation, Soma has a keen interest in promoting psychological wellbeing of people. She teaches psychology focussing on the incorporation of Buddhist analysis of the mind into psychotherapies. Soma holds a first degree in physical science,postgraduate diplomas in population studies,demography andsampling, statistics and a Masters degree in sociology (Georgetown University). More recently she has earned Masters degrees in applied psychology (Coventry University) and Psychology (Arden University), as well as a PhD in Buddhist Studies from the University of Kelaniya.

Suranjani Wickremeratne

An Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (UK) and holds an MBA from the University of Warwick in UK. She is currently engaged in the working for several Charitable Institutions, in a voluntary capacity. She is the current President of the Dental Care International (Sri Lanka Branch), a foreign NGO operating in Bokkawala, Kandy. She has held the position of Head of Audit at an International Bank for nearly 15 years. Besides, she has worked at a Company by Guarantee overlooking social welfare work in the estate sector, as an Accountant and Administration Manager for a couple of years.

Lumbini Priyantha Devasiri

MA, PhD.

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Mallika Karunaratne, PhD.

Mallika Karunaratne, a graduate from University of Peradeniya, obtained her Masters Degree in Town & Country Planning from Sydney University, Australia. She worked with the Government of Sri Lanka as a member of the Sri Lanka Planning Service and retired as a Ministry Secretary in 2010. She is a recipient of Hubert Humphrey Fellowship and had exposure in Human Resource Management at Cornell University, USA. She obtained her PhD. in Buddhist Studies from Kelaniya University. She had training in Psychological Counseling and is engaged in counseling towards well-being of the community applying Buddhist insights.

Our Resource Persons

Ven. Udu-eeriyagama Dhammajiva Thera

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Most Ven. U. Dhammajiva Maha Thero is the Abbot and the Chief Meditation master of Meetirigala Nissaranavanaya Forest Monastery, Sri Lanka. Ven MahaThero learned meditation under the guidance of two great masters; namely the late Most Venerable Matara Sri Ňānārāma Maha Thero of Sri Lanka and late Sayadaw U.  Panditabhivamsa of Burma. As a meditation teacher he emphasize the importance of mindfulness or Sathi. The Maha Thero allows the practitioner to develop either through Vipassana or Samatha method. The Maha Thero has specialized in Vipassana meditation and he is fluent in English, Burmese, Pali and Sinhala.

Ven Alawwe Anomadassi Thera

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Ven Meegoda Sukitha Thera

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Kammtthanacharya Mr Gamini Priyantha

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