Senior Professor Kapila Seneviratne has been appointed as the new Chairman of the University Grants Commission (UGC) by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake.
An alumnus of the University of Kelaniya (UoK), Prof. Seneviratne previously served as the Dean of the Postgraduate Institute at the UoK before his new appointment.
A distinguished scholar in the field of chemistry, he earned his Ph.D. from Wayne State University in the United States in 1997.
