Senior Professor Sudantha Liyanage has been appointed the 35^th Chairman of Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC). He is the former Vice Chancellor and Dean of the Faculties of Applied Science and Technology of the University of Sri Jayawardanapura. Prof.  Liyanage represents Constituency II (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka) of the Council of the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU).

He served as the Chairman of the expert committee appointed to analyse proposals for reforming the country’s election structure and laws. Senior Prof. Sudantha Liyanage is a Commonwealth Scholar who obtained his PhD from Cardiff University of Wales, UK. He has many research publications and received the Presidential Award for research last year for 2018/2019 publications.