Dr. P.C.P. De Silva
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Leadership
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Dr. P.C.P. De Silva
Board of Directors
Dr. P.C.P. De Silva is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Town & Country Planning at the University of Moratuwa. He obtained his PhD in transportation engineering from the University of Moratuwa, after starting his PhD career at the University of South Australia. Dr. De Silva teaches transportation engineering, transportation planning, and urban planning and is responsible for handling most transportation modules in both BSc and MSc programs at the department. He has also served as a visiting lecturer at several government and private universities, including the General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University and the National Institute of Plantation Management.
Dr. De Silva has held several administrative positions in academia. He was the Academic Head of the Pioneer Institute of Business and Technology, Colombo 07, which handles several degree programs of the University of Greenwich locally. He was also a visiting Senior Scholar for the University of Greenwich (UK). Currently, he is the Director and Academic Head of IDM City Campus, which offers many undergraduate and post-graduate degree programs in collaboration with the University of Gloucestershire (UK) at Moratuwa. In addition to his administrative responsibilities, Dr. De Silva has been teaching many subjects in computing and computer systems areas in both BSc and MSc programs offered by those universities.
Dr. De Silva has supervised more than 500 undergraduate and postgraduate final-year projects under both transportation and information and communication technology streams. He has published many journal and conference papers in transportation and information technology fields. Dr. De Silva has also engaged in many private and government transportation consultancy projects, including serving as the Chief Transportation Engineer for the Northern Expressway Project in Sri Lanka. Currently, he is the Chairman of Circle Group of Companies, Sri Lanka, and the Chief TIA Consultant for John Keells Holdings PLC, Sri Lanka. Dr. De Silva is also serving as one of the main Traffic Impact Assessment (TIA) Consultants to the Urban Development Authority of Sri Lanka, having successfully completed nearly 250 TIA projects to date.
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