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University of Ruhuna ISSN: 2706-0063
Matara, Sri Lanka

Citation-Keynote Speaker
By Dr Nandasiri Keembiyahetti

Professor Gamini Premaratne
Senior Assistant Professor, UBD School of Business and Economics

Professor Gamini Premaratne holds a Master’s Degree in Policy Economics
(1992) and a PhD in Economics (2001) with a specialization in Econometrics from
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, where he also served as a
teaching assistant and research assistant for several years. After graduation, he joined
the National University of Singapore (NUS) as an Assistant Professor in the
Department of Economics (2001-2009). Currently, he holds a faculty position at the
UBD School of Business and Economics, Universiti Brunei Darussalam. In addition
to academic tasks, he serves as the Deputy Director of the Institute of Leadership,
Innovation, and Advancement, and is also a member of the Institute of Advanced
Data Analytics at University of Brunei.
Professor Premaratne is a dedicated researcher who has authored more than
68 journal articles recognized in 676 citations, including 15 High Index journals. His
work has appeared in world-renowned journals, including the Journal of Financial
Econometrics, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, Energy Economics,
Singapore Economic Review, Journal of Asian Economics, and Communication in
Statistics, to name a few.

His research interests include the Pearson family of distributions, time series,
systemic risk, poverty, risk management, behavioral finance, financial markets, and
hypothesis testing. He has published five book chapters in Financial Economics and
Econometrics and is currently working on a textbook on Fundamentals of Applied
Econometrics jointly with Anil K. Bera. Professor Premaratne has supervised more
than 15 theses for international students from Brunei, Indonesia, Singapore, Sri
Lanka, Ghana, Pakistan and the Maldives.

As a consultant, he recently completed an ASEAN-Korea Centre project. He
also engaged with Executive Development Programs for Government Officers in
Brunei and is an expert trainer in Econometrics for a Singapore-based consultancy
firm.

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