Ramesh Ramasamy is a Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. He obtained his PhD under the NORHED project on Governance and Policy Studies in South Asia. His research interests lie mainly in the quality of government, democracy, corruption, institutional trust, public service delivery, and citizenship rights.
He has published articles in journals including Contemporary South Asia, Asian Journal of Political Science, Policy Studies, Millennial Asia, Public Organization Review, and Journal of Youth Studies, and has contributed chapters to several edited volumes published by Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, Springer, and Oxford University Press. He is co-editor of Democracy, Protest and Resilience: Reflections on the Rise and Fall of the Aragalaya in Sri Lanka, which has been accepted for publication by Routledge, and lead editor of the forthcoming Popular Uprisings in South Asia, part of the SANPA book series.
Ramesh works closely with governance and democracy scholars across South Asia and is an active member of the South Asia Network for Public Administration (SANPA). He has presented papers at international conferences in Sri Lanka and abroad, including in Norway, Nepal, Bangladesh, India, and Malaysia. He reviews book manuscripts for Routledge and serves as an ad hoc reviewer for several international journals published by Taylor & Francis, Sage, Wiley, and Emerald.
Alongside his academic work, he collaborates with research institutes in Sri Lanka and the wider South Asian region and with several international NGOs operating in Sri Lanka. He has participated in the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) administered by the U.S. Department of State.