Mr. Rajindra Rohitha has a BSc. (Agric.), University of Peradeniya, and a MSc (Aquaculture), Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand. He also has a Postgraduate diploma in Regional Industrial Development from NIBM Sri Lanka. Additionally, he has followed some advanced courses in environmental and resource economics, affiliated to international networks.

He is an experienced development practitioner who has worked as an expatriate in International Organizations and INGOs in several countries such as Zambia, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan. During his career, he has notable innovations; some of them are forest market gardens as a climate smart cropping system, farmers field school in climate change adaptation, threshold level investment methodology in livelihood development and use of analytical hierarchy process in vulnerability analysis.  He is also an expert in the result-based planning process. At CEPA, he currently leads Natural Resources and Climate Change thematic.

Areas of interest: Food & Nutrition Security, Climate Change, Disaster Risk Reduction and Livelihoods.