Suren Raghavan
Suren Raghavan | |
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சுரேன் ராகவன் සුරේන් රාගවන් | |
6th Governor of the Northern Province | |
In office 7 January 2019 – 20 November 2019 | |
President | Maithripala Sirisena |
Preceded by | Reginald Cooray |
Succeeded by | P. S. M. Charles |
Personal details | |
Political party | Independent |
Alma mater | University of Kent |
Profession | Academic |
Ethnicity | Sri Lankan Tamil |
Suren Raghavan (Tamil: சுரேன் ராகவன், romanized: Curēṉ Rākavaṉ; Sinhala: සුරේන් රාගවන්, romanized: Surēn Rāgavan) is a Sri Lankan Tamil academic and former Governor of the Northern Province.
Raghavan joined the University of Kent's School of Political and International Relations in 2005 on a scholarship from the James Madison Trust and received a Master of Arts degree after producing a dissertation on federalism in Sri Lanka.[1][2] He then carried out research at the University of Ottawa before returning to the University of Kent in 2008 on another James Madison Trust scholarship to study for his doctorate degree.[1][3] He was also an Overseas Research Students Awards Scheme scholar from 2008 to 2011 and a recipient of the Ontario Student Assistance Program award.[1][2] In 2012 he received a doctorate politics and government from the University of Kent after producing a thesis titled Multimational Federaiism and Sinhala Buddhism. Is there a (In)compatibility? The Case of Ethnonationalism in Sri Lanka.[2][4]
Raghavan was a visiting professor at Saint Paul University, research fellow at the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies and a visiting research scholar at the University of Colombo's Department of History.[1][2][5][6] He was chairperson and national director of Colombo School for Critical Studies.[6] He has been a jury member for several film festivals including the OCIC, South Indian Film Federation and Asian Cinema Centre.[6] He organised the Indian Film Festival in Colombo.[6]
Raghavan was appointed adviser to President Maithripala Sirisena and director of the Presidential Media Unit in November 2018.[2][7] In January 2019 he was appointed Governor of the Northern Province by Sirisena.[8][9] Following the presidential election in November 2019, newly elected President Gotabaya Rajapaksa ordered Raghavan and all other provincial governors to resign.[10][11] Raghavan has been nominated as a national list member of the parliament in 2020 by SLPP.
Works
- Buddhist Monks and the Politics of Lanka’s Civil War: Ethnoreligious Nationalism of the Sinhala Sangha and Peacemaking in Sri Lanka, 1995-2010 (2018, Equinox Publishing)[1]
- Post-War Militancy of Sinhala Saṅgha: Reasons and Reactions (Oxford University Press)[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f "Suren Rāghavan". Oxford, U.K.: Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
- ^ a b c d e "First Tamil Governor, Dr. Suren Ragavan, appointed for North". Tamil Diplomat. 8 January 2019. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
- ^ "Centre for Federal Studies: Members". Canterbury, U.K.: University of Kent. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
- ^ "Centre for Federal Studies: Research degrees". Canterbury, U.K.: University of Kent. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
- ^ "Contributors". Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies. 1. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies: 5. October 2011. ISSN 2047-1076.
- ^ a b c d "Executive Board: Suren Rāghavan". Colombo, Sri Lanka: Arts Council of Sri Lanka. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
- ^ "Suren Ragawan appointed Presidential Media Director!". Sri Lanka Mirror. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 25 November 2018. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
- ^ "Three more governors appointed". The Daily Mirror. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 7 January 2019. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
- ^ "Keerthi Tennakoon appointed Governor Uva". The Island. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 9 January 2019. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
- ^ "Governors resign". The Island. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 21 November 2019. Retrieved 31 December 2019.
- ^ "Governors asked to resign". The Daily Mirror. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 20 November 2019. Retrieved 31 December 2019.