Prof. Saliya Arachchige

Professor | Department of Business Management | SLIIT Business School

CAREER SUMMARY

1984-1990: KPMG (FormerFord Rhodes Thornton & Co.) -Audit Manager

1991-1992: Harischandra Mills - Chief Accountant

1993: Saudy Readymix - Internal Auditor

1994-2003: Seylan Bank - CFO and Head of Research and Corporate Planning

Executive Director - Ceylinco Savings Bank, Ceylinco Develoment Bank

Director - Seylan Assets Management (Primary Dealer), ESOP companies and Seylan Merchant Bank

2004-2010: Auckland University of Technilogy (New Zealand) - Lecturer

2011-2014: The University of the South Pacific (Fiji) Lecturer

2015-2018: Southern Institute of Technilogy (New Zealand) - Research Supervisor

2019-2021: Fiji National University - Assistant Professor in Banking and Finance

2022 - Todate - SLIIT 

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

BCom (Special-Hons) - University of Colombo - 1992

MBA - PIM of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura - 1998

Diploma in Central Banking - CBSL - 1999

PhD - Auckland University of Technology (NZ) - 2009

TESOL - AIS (NZ) - 2011

HONOURS AND AWARDS

Gold medalist at Ceylinco best performers - 2000

Judge - Entreprenure of the year, National productivity awards. Exporter of the year, Annual report competition 2001-2003

Winner of Boston Consultancy Business Strategy competition NZ- Post Graduate category - 2005

Represented AUT for Boston Consultancy Strategy competition -  international finals in Sydney - 2005

Human library - SLIIT library

RESEARCH INTERESTS AND MEMBERSHIP

Research Interests

Inequility, diversity, inclusion and discrimination

Poverty, economic development and Marxism

Financial markets and behavioral finance

Climate change related financial risk

Bank supervision and regulatory issues

Philosophy of research and Research methods

Gender studies 

 

Memberships

FCA - The Institute of Chatered Accountants of Sri Lanka - 1990

Professional Banker - The Association of Professional Bankers of SL - 1998

MICM - The Institute of Credit Management - UK - 1999

FCMA - The Certified Management Accountants of SL - 2000

CPA - The Certified Public Accountants - Australia - 2010

RESEARCH CLUSTERS

Behavioral Systems

Understanding how humans behave and interact with each other, organizations, technology and society may help improve the quality of lives of people.  

ONGOING RESEARCH

Gender inquality in corperate boards

Influencing factors of investment decisions

Poverty eradication

Micro finance as a trap

 

PUBLICATIONS

  • Journal Publications 2012

    The Oldest Profession

    Saliya, C. A, “Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal” , pp. 1072

  • Books 2010

    The Role of bank lending in sustaining income/wealth inequality in Sri Lanka

    Saliya, C. A,

  • Conference Proceedings 2011

    A critical Analysis of Performance of the Fiji Development Bank

    Saliya, C. A, (The Fiji Economy Update 2011)

  • Conference Presentations 2007

    The Role of bank lending in sustaining income/wealth inequality in Sri Lanka.

    Saliya, C. A and Hooper, K,

  • Conference Presentations 2006

    Role of bank lending in sustaining wealth/income inequality

    Saliya, C. A,

  • Conference Proceedings 2006

    Bank capitalism in Sri Lanka favours protectionism under façade of nationalism or patriotism, as a mean to protect the affluent class.

    Saliya, C. A, (the 6th Hawaii International Conference on Business)

  • Conference Presentations 2002

    Turnaround through collective planning & monitoring, reviewing & rewarding based on the Balanced Scorecard

    Saliya, C. A,

  • World Wide Web 2009

    Longitudinal Study of Seylan Bank, Sri Lanka from 1996 to 2008

    Saliya, C. A,

  • World Wide Web 2008

    Bad Buddhists, Good Buddhists and True Buddhists

    Saliya, C. A,

  • Book Chapters 2003

    Branch Banking is still Valid

    Saliya, C. A,

  • Book Chapters 2001

    Abuse of Responsibility

    Saliya, C. A,

  • News Papers 1997

    Overvaluation of Rupee

    Saliya, C. A,

  • Journal Publications 1998

    Performance Evaluation of Commercial Banks - Application of the Balanced Scorecard

    Saliya, C. A, “The Professional Banker” , pp. 21-33

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