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Senake Bandaranayake is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology, University of Kelaniya. He was founding Director of the Postgraduate Institute of Archaeology and Archaeological Director of the Sigiriya Cultural Triangle Project. He was also Vice-Chancellor of his University and member of the University Grants Commission.

Albert Dharmasiri Painter, graphic designer and art historian, was for more than thirty years a lecturer and professor at the University of Visual and Performing Arts in Colombo and its predecessor institutions, the Government College of Fine Arts and the Institute of Aesthetic Studies of the University of Kelaniya. In 1983 he was elected to the Executive Committee of the International Association of art (IAA-UNESCO) in Paris, becoming its Vice-Chairman in 1986. The most recent exhibition of his paintings was in the group exhibition of Sri Lankan art Expressions of Independence at the Mona Bismarck Foundation in Paris in 2008. He was Chairman of the Painting and Sculpture panel of the National Arts Council of Sri Lanka.