Dr. Chandranath Amarasekara is a macroeconomist by profession and currently serves as the Alternate Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund. He formerly headed the economic research wing of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka as its Director of Economic Research. He also serves as a member of the Monetary Policy Committee and Market Operations Committee of the Central Bank, among others. Prior to joining the Central Bank in January 2003, he worked as Research Officer at the International Monetary Fund-Sri Lanka Office in 2001-2002. Dr. Amarasekara graduated from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka in 2001 with a First Class Honors Degree in Economics. He also holds an MSc in Economics with Distinction and a PhD in Economics specializing in modeling monetary policy and labor markets, both from the University of Manchester, UK. Dr. Amarasekara is one of the most cited monetary policy researchers in Sri Lanka. His research work on macroeconomic modeling, monetary transmission, economic impact of monetary policy, and on capital flows has appeared in a number of international as well as domestic journals. Dr. Amarasekara is also an Attorney-at-Law.