Prof. Pathmalal Manage appointed J’pura VC

President Ranil Wickremesinghe has appointed Senior Professor Pathmalal M.Manage as the Vice Chancellor of the Sri Jayewardenepura University for a three-year term with immediate effect.

Prior to this appointment, Prof. Manage was serving as the Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies.

Senior Professor Manage has served as the Acting Vice-Chancellor and the Acting Dean of the Faculty of Applied Sciences last year.

From 2013 to 2019, Professor Manage, who has also served as the Head of the Zoology Department of the Faculty of Applied Sciences, has been working as the Director of the Water Quality and Algae Research Center since 2015 and as the Co-Head of the Research Council since 2016. Manage is an alumnus of Nawalapitiya Anuruddha Kumara Maha Vidyalaya and St.Sylvester’s College Kandy.