Sarath Amunugama
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Sarath Amunugama JP is a leading Sri Lankan academic, who is the founding & current Vice Chancellor of the University of the Visual & Performing Arts, Colombo.
Amunugama received his early education at Kingswood College, Kandy and higher education at the University of Paris specializing in modern languages.
During his long teaching carrier he had held several distinguished positions such as dean, Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya before benign appointed as the first Vice Chancellor of the newly established University of the Visual & Performing Arts on July 1, 2005[1].
[edit] Honors
- He was awarded the title Chevalier (knight) of the L'Ordre des Palmes académiques by the government of France.
- In 2006 he was made a Justice of Peace by the government of Sri Lanka.
