Rohan Samarajiva is founding Chair of LIRNEasia, an ICT policy and regulation think tank active across emerging Asia. His most recent co-authored book (2013) is Information lives of the poor: Fighting poverty with technology, published in Burmese, English, French and Spanish. He serves on the Council of the University of Moratuwa, the Board of the Institute of Technology, University of Moratuwa, and the Advisory Council of the Sri Lanka Archives. He serves as Chair of Sarvodaya Fusion, the ICT unit of Sri Lanka�s largest community based organization and advises Advocata Institute, a Sri Lankan economic policy think tank. He was Chair of the ICT Agency, the apex body for information and communication technology within the government of Sri Lanka in 2018-19, having been one of its founding directors in 2003-05. He was Team Leader at the Sri Lanka Ministry for Economic Reform, Science and Technology (2002-04) responsible for infrastructure reforms, including participation in the design of the USD 83 million e Sri Lanka Initiative. Samarajiva was Director General of Telecommunications in Sri Lanka (1998-99), Honorary Professor at the University of Moratuwa in Sri Lanka (2003-04), Visiting Professor of Economics of Infrastructures at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands (2000-03) and Associate Professor of Communication and Public Policy at the Ohio State University in the US (1987-2000).