Shyamali Ranaraja is an Attorney-at-law and holds a Masters’ Degree in Business Administration from the University of Colombo.  She has specialised in the practice of Employment and Labour Law for over 25 years, and also provides advisory services on all aspects of human resource management, industrial relations and statutory provisions relating to employment.  Mrs. Ranaraja is currently a visiting lecturer and examiner at the University of Peradeniya, Department of Human Resources Management and Department of Law, and has also been a visiting lecturer for the Master’s Degree in Business Administration at the PGIA, and at other institutions.   She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Power Analysis, Colombo, and the current President of the Alliance Francaise de Kandy.

Mrs. Ranaraja also carries out research on various aspects of labour and employment law, rights at work and gender aspects of employment for the International Labour Organisation, the World Bank, the International Organisation for Migration, and European Union among others, and has had her research published both nationally and internationally.