Jeevika Weerahewa is the Senior Professor of Agricultural Economics attached to the Department of Agricultural Economics and Business Management, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. She obtained her BSc and MPhil from the University of Peradeniya and PhD from the University of Guleph, Canada. She has served as the Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Business Management, Faculty of Agriculture and Chairperson of the Board of Study in Agricultural Economics at the Postgraduate Institute of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya and as the Chair of Sri Lanka Forum of University Economists. Weerahewa currently serves as an Honorary Fellow at the Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia.