Professor Praneeth Abhayasundara has been appointed as the Chairman of Arts Council of Sri Lanka by Mr. Vidura Wickramanayake Hon. Minister of Buddhasasana, Religious and Cultural Affairs.

Prof. Abyesundara is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology of Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, USJ and was the former Head of the Sociology & Anthropology Department. Prof. Abyesundara studied at Ananda college Colombo, and obtained a BA. Special Degree in Sociology, and later MA in from University of Sri Jayewardenepura. He also obtained Merit in Post Graduate Diploma in Writership & Communication. He got his PhD. in Sociology from Banaras H.U. India.

Professor Tudor Weerasinghe has been appointed as the Vice Chairman of Arts Council of Sri Lanka by Mr. Vidura Wickramanayake Hon. Minister of Buddhasasana, Religious and Cultural Affairs.

Mr. Dharmananda Wijesinghe has been appointed as a Executive Committee Member of Arts Council of Sri Lanka by Mr. Vidura Wickramanayake Hon. Minister of Buddhasasana, Religious and Cultural Affairs. Also he is the Vice-Chairman of Radio, News Papers and Social Media Advisory Board.

Dharmananda Wijesinghe educated at Royal College Colombo and earned a BA (Honours) Special Degree in Economics from the University of Colombo. He continued his studies in different streams and was successful in obtaining a Post Graduate Diploma in “Writership & Mass Communication” and MA Degree in “Journalism” from the University of Sri Jayawardenepura.

Senior Professor H.D. Yasanjali Devika Jayathilake has been appointed as a Executive Committee Member of Arts Council of Sri Lanka by Mr. Vidura Wickramanayake Hon. Minister of Buddhasasana, Religious and Cultural Affairs.

Yasanjali Devika Jayatilleke is a Professor of Anthropology, in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Sri Jayewardenapura, Sri Lanka. She is also an Attorney-at-Law. In 1993 she was awarded SAARC scholarship by the government of India and completed her Ph.D in 1998 from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Professor Srivaratharajan Pirashanthan has been appointed as a Executive Committee Member of Arts Council of Sri Lanka by Mr. Vidura Wickramanayake Hon. Minister of Buddhasasana, Religious and Cultural Affairs. Also he is a member of Literary Advisory Board.

Prof. Srivaratharajan Pirashanthan, a senior lecturer in Tamil, received his primary education at Kopay Navalar Vidyalayam and secondary education at Jaffna Hindu College. Subsequently, he completed his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at the University of Peradeniya. He obtained the PhD in Tamil from Annamalai University, India in 2011 under the Cultural Exchange Programme Scholarship by Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India.