Dileni Gunewardena is Professor of Economics, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. Her research focuses on human capital, gender and ethnic inequality, poverty and child nutrition. She has a Ph.D. in economics from American University, and has been a Fulbright Scholar, a Brookings Institution Echidna Global Scholar, a Global Development Network (GDN) award winner and a visiting scholar at American University’s Programme in Gender Analysis in Economics. She has consulted for the World Bank and UN agencies. She is a PEP Research Fellow and a non-residential Research Fellow at Verite Research.