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The Centre for Policy Research is hosting a talk on Framing (and making sense of) political developments in Sri Lanka by Rohan Samarajiva.; Samarajiva is a commentator on economic and policy matters in the Sri Lankan media, in addition to his work as the CEO of a regional think tank.  His principal media outlets are the e-news site Lanka Business Online (www.lbo.lk) which runs a monthly column entitled “Choices,” and Ravaya, a Sinhala weekly that runs those columns as “Vikalpa.”  Choices was shortlisted for the 2009 Bastiat Prize for online journalism.  He holds an interdisciplinary PhD from Simon Fraser University and is a lawyer.  He has had an abiding interest in Sri Lankan history and has co-authored two articles on contemporary Sri Lankan history in Asian Survey, in addition to journal articles and book chapters on media and telecom developments in Sri Lanka.  His principal expertise is in infrastructure regulation and policy.  He was Director General of Telecom in Sri Lanka (1998-99) and Team Leader at the Ministry for Economic Reforms and one of the founder directors of the ICT Agency of Sri Lanka in 2002-04.  He has taught at Ohio State University, Delft University of Technology and the University of Moratuwa.