Launches fellowship programme for academics and professionals

Verité Research recently appointed Professor Dileni Gunewardena, Professor Mick Moore and Professor Shantayanan Devarajan as its first Non-Resident Fellows. These appointments were made as a first step in launching their new Fellowship Programme.
Professor Dileni Gunewardena is a Professor of Economics (Chair) at the University of Peradeniya. Her publications include work on gender and ethnic wage gaps, child nutrition and growth, and consumption and multidimensional poverty. She has been a Fulbright Scholar, a Brookings Institute Echidna Global Scholar, a PGAE (Program in Gender Analysis in Economics) Scholar at American University and has twice won Global Development Network (GDN) awards. She is also a Research Fellow at the Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP) Research Network. Professor Mick Moore is a political economist and Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies. His broad research interests are in the domestic and international dimensions of good and bad governance in poor countries. He focuses specifically on taxation and governance, and between 2010 and 2020 was the founding Chief Executive Officer of the International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD). Professor Shantayanan Devarajan is a professor of the practice of international development at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. He was previously at the World Bank, where he was the senior director for Development Economics and the chief economist of the Middle East and North Africa, Africa, and South Asia regions and the Human Development Network.
Verité’s Non-Resident Fellow position is offered to outstanding academics and professionals to join Verité’s active and reputed intellectual community, while remaining in their current positions.
Other fellowship opportunities include:
1. Junior Fellowships – for applicants who are currently enrolled as university students or engaged as young professionals and are looking to gain research or policy related experience in Sri Lanka.
2. Graduate Fellowships – for applicants who are currently enrolled in doctoral programmes or in related fields, and who wish to gain practical, policy-oriented experience at a think tank.
3. Post-Doctoral Fellowships – for recent PhD recipients who are preparing their doctoral thesis for publication or who wish to engage in new research relevant to their field.
Verité Research accepts applications for its fellowship programme on a rolling basis. Interested applicants can send in their CV and cover letter to work@veriteresearch.org.