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Dr. Susantha Goonatilake was first trained in electrical engineering in Sri Lanka, Germany and Britain and later in sociology in Sri Lanka and Britain (Ph.D.; M.A; B.A; B.Sc; A.M.I.E.E. Dr. Goonatilake’s books include: A 16th Century Clash of Civilizations: the Portuguese Presence in Sri Lanka; Cultural Consequences of the Shift to Asia (forthcoming); Anthropologizing Sri Lanka: A Civilizational Misadventure; Recolonisation: Foreign funded NGOs in Sri Lanka; Toward a Global Science: Mining Civilizational Knowledge; Merged Evolution: the Long Term Implications of Information Technology and Biotechnology; Technological Independence: the Asian Experience; Evolution of Information: Lineages in Genes, Culture and Artefact; Aborted Discovery: Science and Creativity in the Third World; Crippled Minds : an Exploration into Colonial Culture; Food as a Human Right; Jiritsu Suru Ajia No Kagaku-Dai San Sekai Ishiki Karano Kaiho (Japanese translation of writings by Goonatilake); and Al-Iktishaf al-mujahad; al-‘ilm wa-l-ibda’ fi al-‘alam al-thalithSuzantha Ghunatilik Tarjamahu ‘afif al-Razaz (Arabic translation of writings by Goonatilake) Dr. Goonatilake has taught or researched among others at the Universities of Exeter and Sussex, UK; Columbia University; and New School for Social Research, New York; Institute of Developing Economies , Tokyo; Universities of Philippines, Manila; of Trondheim, Norway; of Linkoping, Sweden, of Malaya; the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague. He has worked at the UN. He has also being a senior consultant for all the UN organs dealing with knowledge and science and technology issues (such as UNU, UNESCO, UNDP, ILO, FAO, ESCAP, APDA). Dr. Goonatilake is a former General President of the Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science and is the President of the country's oldest academic body, the 167 year old Royal Asiatic Society, Sri Lanka. He is a Fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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