Muttukrishna Sarvananthan hails from Point Pedro (Northern Sri Lanka) and is a Development Economist by profession and the Principal Researcher of the Point Pedro Institute of Development, Point Pedro, Sri Lanka. He has worked as a Consultant to the Ministry of Finance and Planning, various private research institutions and international consultancy firms, Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), German Development Cooperation (GTZ), International Labour Organisation (ILO), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP - both the country office and the Asia Pacific Regional Centre Colombo), and the World Bank (IBRD) in Sri Lanka undertaking field survey-based and desk-based applied empirical research studies on contemporary economic and social issues (civil conflict/war, gender, international trade, labour market, local economic development, macro-economy, peace, poverty, terrorism, etc) confronting Sri Lanka and beyond, field evaluations of economic, governance, peace-building, and post-disaster projects in Sri Lanka, post-conflict/disaster needs assessments in Sri Lanka, and fiscal and monetary transparency reviews in Sri Lanka. Further, he has been an academic tutor, supervisor and external examiner on development, economics and peace studies for the University of Bradford (2005/6), United Nations University for Peace (2005-2008) in Sri Lanka, Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi (2006), and local tertiary institutions. He has been an intern at the World Bank headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1996. Besides, he is also a member of the international editorial board of the Contemporary South Asia journal published by Routledge. Moreover, he has been a peer reviewer of number of articles submitted to Contemporary South Asia and Disasters journals published by Routledge during 2003-2009. He was a Fulbright Visiting Research Scholar at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University in Washington, D.C. from October 2008 to July 2009.      

He has authored books titled The Economy of the Conflict Region: from economic embargo to economic repression, People’s Verdict on Tsunami Recovery in Sri Lanka, Children of War: Aspirations and Opportunities (received the first prize under the research award scheme of the Sri Lanka Economic Association in 2008), An Assessment of Contraband Trade and Capital between India and Sri Lanka, Impact of Civil Conflict on Women in Traditional Tamil Society (co-author), and Economic Reforms in Sri Lanka: post-1977 period (editor). He is currently writing a book titled From Liberation to Terrorism: the Rise and Demise of the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka. Further, he has published articles on Indo-Sri Lanka trade, poverty and income inequality, civil war and the economy, and economic policies and strategies in Conflict Trends (Durban), Contemporary South Asia (Routledge), Economic and Political Weekly (Mumbai), Faultlines: Writings on Conflict and Resolution (New Delhi), Indian Journal of Regional Science (Kolkata), Journal of Contemporary Asia (Routledge), South Asia Economic Journal (Sage), Sri Lanka Economic Journal (Colombo), Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences (Colombo), and Third World Quarterly (Routledge). His research note titled “Recovering from the Tsunami: People’s Experiences in Sri Lanka” in Contemporary South Asia, Vol.16 No.3, September 2008 (pp 339-351) was amongst the top twenty articles downloaded from the publisher’s (informaworld) own portal during 2008.
 
Muttukrishna Sarvananthan earned a Doctorate in Development Economics at the Centre for Development Studies, University of Wales, Swansea in 1999, Master of Science in Development Planning and Administration at the Department of Social Policy and Social Planning, University of Bristol in 1991, Master of Science (Economics) in Economic Development at the Department of Economics, University of Salford in 1989, and Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Economics at the Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi in 1986. Besides, he has successfully completed teaching skills for graduate tutors course at the University of Wales, Swansea in 1998.

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