Maitree Wickremasinghe

Professor Maithree Wickramasinghe
Residence Temple Trees
Citizenship Sri Lankan
Nationality Sri Lanka Sri Lankan
Fields Gender and women's studies
Institutions University of Kelaniya
Alma mater Musaeus College, Colombo,
University of Colombo,
King's College London,
University of London
Spouse Ranil Wickremesinghe, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka

Maithree Wickramasinghe is a Sri Lankan academic and Professor of English at the University of Kelaniya. The wife of Ranil Wickremasinghe the current Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, she is the founder director of the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Kelaniya and is a visiting professor on gender and women's studies at other educational institutions including the University of Colombo and University of Sussex. Maithree Wickramasinghe has delivered keynotes and addressed plenaries at academic and professional fora in the US, Spain, Kenya, India, Pakistan, South Korea and China.

Family and education

The only child of the late Senevi B. Wickremasinghe and Shiranee Wickremasinghe (née Bandaratilaka) of Nawala, Koswatte. She is an old girl of Musaeus College. She graduated from King's College London with a BA (Hons) degree in the English and went on to complete her MA degree in Women’s Studies at the University of Colombo. She had gained her PhD degree from the Institute of Education, University of London specializing on feminist research methodology in Sri Lanka. In 1995 she married Ranil Wickremasinghe.

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