Pradeepa Jayaratne

• Ph.D., University of Wollongong, Australia
• MSc (Distinction Award), University of Wollongong, Australia
• Grad. Cert. BA, University of Wollongong, Australia
• Advanced Diploma and Diploma in Transport, UK
• Chartered Member (CMILT), Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, UK

Logistics & Supply Chain Management

• Sustainable Supply Chain/Logistics
• Outsourcing
• Supply chain collaboration
• Green supply chain
• Circular economic 
• Supply chain risk
• Transport and logistics
• Agri supply chain

• “Vendor Certification Program and Performance: Mediating role of Absorptive Capability in Agricultural Food Processing Firms”, December 2022.
• “Revenue Pooling Model for Bus Operations in Economies in Transition: Pilot Project in Sri Lanka” (Under Review)
• "Assessing significant factors for sustainable cold chain performance in Sri Lankan context," International Journal of Integrated Supply Management, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 13(2/3), pages 277-301
• “Evaluate and Identify the Factors Impact on Selecting a Mobile App-Based Taxi service in Sri Lanka (Users’ Perspective)”, Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, Volume 13 (2019),
• Evaluation of Adopting E-Procurement and Its Impact on Performance in Apparel Supply Chain in Sri Lanka, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Operations and Supply Chain Management, Vietnam, 2019
• Identifying influencing factors on sustainable tea supply chain in Sri Lanka, International Conference on Operations and Supply Chain Management, Cranfield University, UK, September 2018
• Evaluating Sri Lanka’s Perishable Cold Chain to Increase Rural Supply to Urban Markets,”, International Conference on Operations and Supply Chain Management, Cranfield University, UK, September 2018.
• UN SDGs Shaping Sustainable Supply Chains: The Case of Apparel Manufacturers in Developing Countries, IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics
• (SOLI 2018), Singapore, 2018.
• Effect of Governance and Policy on the Management of a Sustainable Agri-Supply Supply Network: An Example from the Sri Lankan Tea Industry, IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, Singapore, 2018.
• Economic Impacts of Applying Green Supply Chain Management Practices in Organizations in Sri Lanka, IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics (SOLI 2018), Singapore 2018.
• Evaluating Sri Lanka’s Perishable Cold Chain to Increase Rural Supply to Urban Markets, July 2018.
• Evaluation of E-procurement Adoption and its Impact on Apparel Supply Chain Performance, July 2018.
• Economic Impacts of Applying Green Supply Chain Management Practices to Organizations in Sri Lanka, July 2018.
• “Role of Sustainable Development Goals in the Apparel Supply Chain of Sri Lanka”, The 6th International Conference on Asian Economic Development (AED2017), Thailand.
• “Derivation of a Decision Model on Outsourcing in Sri Lanka using Analytic Hierarchy Process, 2017.
• “Evaluate and Identify Strategies to Streamline Procurement Process in Educational Institutes in Sri Lanka”, 2017.
• “Importance of Social Sustainability in Sri Lankan Apparel Supply Chain”, 2017.
• “Evaluation of Coloured Gemstones Supply Chain a Case of Sri Lanka”, 2017.
• “Impacts of Mergers and Acquisitions on Supply Chains of Sri Lanka”, 2017.
• “Understanding the Perspective of Stakeholders of the Supply Chain in Manufacturing Industry on applying Sustainable Principles in their Operations”, 2017.
• “Deterministic Parameters for the Success of Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI)”, 2017.
• Lessons in ownership, regulation, and management from 100 years of bus transport in Sri Lanka, pages 108-117, Research in Transportation Economics, Elsevier, 2008
• “Evaluation of Fresh Vegetable Supply Chain Structure and Their Performance”, 2016.
• “Assessing the Impact of Outsourcing and   Internationalization over the Upstream Supply Chains of Apparel   Industry”, 2016.
• “Impact of information sharing on buyer-supplier relationship and Supply chain performances in the apparel industry in Sri Lanka”, 2016.
• “Identifying the Risk Factors of Global Sourcing in Large-Scale Apparel Industry in Sri Lanka”, 2016.
• “Enhancing the Efficiency of Inventory Management in FMCG industry”, 2016.
• Vendor Certification Program and Performance: Mediating Role of Absorptive Capability in Agricultural Food Processing Firms (2023), Springer
• “A Contextual Position on Supply”, Sydney Business School Review, Australia, July 2010 (co-author)
• ‘Analysis of Road Accidents in Sri Lanka, for 2001 & 2002’, Colombo Sri Lanka, October 2003 (co-author)

• Gender Inclusion in PIARC, External Research Grant, 2023
• Research Project on Validating ‘Metronamica’ for the forecasting of long-term land used based multi-modal transport demand in Kandy Metropolitan Region in Collaboration with SMART Infrastructure, UoW (since 2015)
• Research Project on the Development of a Land Use Regional Planning Model for Sri Lanka Integrated to Transport, the Environment and the Economy (LITEE), in collaboration with SMART Infrastructure, UoW (since 2016)

• 3 Master's Research Degrees
• Over 25 MBA Part-time Researches
• Over 40 Undergraduate Honours degree thesis

Awards 

• Best Research paper in Supply Chain Management, Conference on Research for Transport & Logistics Industry, Colombo Sri Lanka, July 2018. 
• Grant for the Regional Alumni Workshop 2018 - Australia Awards South and West Asia Alumni as Champions for the Environment and Climate Action: Project on Cradle to Cradle: Empowering school children to be catalysts for preserving the environment and tackling climate change (on-going) 
• Best Research Paper at the 2nd International Conference on Research for Transport & Logistics Industry, Colombo Sri Lanka, July 2017.  
• Best Research Paper in Supply Chain Management Stream at the 2nd International Conference on Research for Transport & Logistics Industry, Colombo Sri Lanka, July 2017. http://slstl.lk/r4tli-2017/ 
• Best Research Paper in the Logistics Stream at the 2nd International Conference on Research for Transport & Logistics Industry, Colombo Sri Lanka, July 2017.  
• Best Research paper in Supply Chain Management, Conference on Research for Transport & Logistics Industry, Colombo Sri Lanka, June 2016.  
• Australian Leadership Award offered by the AusAID to outstanding future leaders to follow the Ph.D. program (Jan 2010-March 2014) 
• University of Wollongong International Postgraduate Tuition Award (March-August 2014) 
• ADB Award (through University of Moratuwa) for a training program at the University of Calgary, Canada (January – April 2001) 

Memberships 

• Chartered Member, Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport, UK (since 2007) 
• Life Member, Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science, Sri Lanka (since 2003) 
• Member, Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport, UK (2003-2007) 
• Associate Member, Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (2010 –2014) 
• Life Member, Sri Lanka Association for Australia Awards Alumina (since 2015) 
• Member, Sri Lanka Society for Transport and Logistics (since 2014) 
• Member, IEEEE (Transport/Management Sector) (May 2018 – Dec 2019) 

• Senior Consultant in Logistics (Principal Consultant), Review logistics system in Sri Lanka, World Bank, Sri Lanka, (Oct 2018 – Oct 2020). 
• Senior Transport Expert, “A Project on Evaluating political economy analysis of administration and decision-making in the transport and land sectors in Sri Lanka”, Millennium Challenge Corporation CGM, Washington DC 20005/LirneAsia, Sri Lanka Oct 2018 – Oct 2020.  
• Senior Public Transport Expert, “The Sahasara Bus Reform Project for the Central Province Passenger Transport Authority, World Bank/SCDP Project (Kandy), Ministry of Megapolis and Western Development, Sri Lanka, Oct 2018 – Oct 2021. 
• Senior Public Transport Expert, The Sahasara Bus Reform Project for public bus services in the whole country–Sri Lanka, Ministry of Megapolis and Western Development, (Oct 2018 – Oct 2020).  
• Senior Transport Expert, Review transport related government agencies and other related institutes on their responsibilities, structure and their operations, World Bank, Sri Lanka, (Oct 2017 – May 2018).  
• Principal Consultant – Transport and Logistics, Scoping of Transport Planning Study and Preparation of Transport and Traffic Database for Galle Integrated Multi-Modal Transport Study (GIMMTS), Ministry of Megapolis and Western, Development/World Bank, (Nov 2017 – Sep 2021). 
• Public Transport Expert, Implementing Bus Priority Lanes on Galle Road, Parliament Roads and Roads in Pettah/Colombo, Ministry of Megapolis/, Department of Transport & Logistics Management, University of Moratuwa July 2017 – Oct 2020. 
• Consultant – Transport and Logistics, “The State of Sri Lanka Cities Report and Data System” Data and Capacity Building for 9 Provincial Cities”, UNHABITAT/UNDP, UN Sri Lanka, June 2017 – March 2019. 
• Consultant, Development of Integrated Bus Terminals in Kadawatha and Mawanella in Sri Lanka, Urban Development Authority/University of Moratuwa, June 2016 – Jan 2018. 
• Consultant, Bus scheduling expert for the Bus Reform Project for the Central Province Passenger Transport Authority funded by the Presidential Secretariat/SEMA, Central Province Passenger Transport Authority/University of Moratuwa, May 2016 – Oct 2021. 
• Consultant on Transport Demand Analysis and Bus Scheduling, Kandy Strategic City Development Project, UNIC, University of Moratuwa, June 2015 – January 2022.  
• Consultant/Transport Planner, Review COMTRANS - Colombo Urban Transport Masterplan developed by JICA, University of Moratuwa/Ministry of Transport, August 2014 – May 2015. 
• Consultant, Benchmark data on the transport and logistics sector for Sri Lanka, World Bank, Sri Lanka, May-July 2009; Oct-Dec 2009 

• Associate Professor and Head of Department of Research Degree (MPhil and PhD), Iqra University, Karachi, Pakistan, Feb 2020 – Oct 2021
• Visiting Lecturer, University of Colombo Sri Lanka, October 2018 – to date
• Consultant in Transport and Logistics, World Bank Project at Ministry of Megapolis and western development, 2017 – 2020
• Sri Lanka Senior Lecturer/Senior Academic Consultant, Department of Transport & Logistics Management, University of Moratuwa, Aug 2014 – Jan 2018
• Sessional Lecturer, Sydney Business School, University of Wollongong, Australia, 2010 –2013
• Visiting Lecturer, MBA in Management, Northampton University, UK/Edulink Sri Lanka June 2018-Oct 2020
• Visiting Lecturer, Imperial Institute of Higher Education Sri Lanka, June 2018-Oct 2020
• Visiting Lecturer, MBA in Management, ACBT Campus Sri Lanka, Oct 2018-Oct 2020
• Visiting Lecturer, MBA in Supply Chain Management, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, Oct 2015-Oct 2020
• Graduate Research Assistant, University of Wollongong, Jan 2010 – May 2014
• Visiting Lecturer, CINEC Maritime Campus, Sri Lanka, Apr 2008 – Dec 2009
• Research Assistant, the University of Wollongong, Oct-Dec 2007