What is Maitree Wickramasinghe?
{{BLP unsourced|date=July 2013}} {{Infobox scientist |name = Maithree Wickramasinghe |image = Maitree Wickremesinghe at Hyderabad House 2016 (cropped).jpg |image_size = |caption = |birth_date = 11 August 1954 |birth_place = |death_date = |death_place = |residence = |citizenship = |nationality = {{flagicon|Sri Lanka}} [[Sri Lanka]]n |ethnicity = |field = Gender and women's studies |work_institutions = [[University of Kelaniya]] |alma_mater = [[King's College London]],<br>[[University of Colombo]], <br>[[University of London]] |doctoral_advisor = |doctoral_students = |known_for = |spouse = [[Ranil Wickremesinghe]] |influences = |influenced = |prizes = |religion = |footnotes = }} '''Maithree Wickramasinghe''' (born 11 August 1954) is a [[Sri Lanka]]n academic and Professor of English at the [[University of Kelaniya]]. The wife of [[Ranil Wickremasinghe]] the current President of Sri Lanka, she is the founder director of the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Kelaniya and a visiting professor on gender and women's studies at other educational institutions including the [[University of Colombo]] and the [[University of Sussex]]. Maithree Wickramasinghe has delivered keynotes and plenaries at academic and professional fora in the US, Spain, Kenya, India, Pakistan, Singapore, 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 graduated from King's College [[London]] with a BA (Hons) degree in 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. In 1995 she married Ranil Wickremasinghe. ==Related pages== * [[Ranil Wickremasinghe]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Wickramasinghe, Maitree}} [[Categor