Professor Errol Valentine Daniel is a Sri Lankan academic, anthropologist and author.
He is currently Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Southern Asian Institute at Columbia University.
[4][5] After school he joined Amherst College from where he received a B.A.
[7] He then taught at the University of Michigan (1990–97), serving as Director of the Program in Comparative Studies in Social Transformation from 1995 to 1997.
[6] He is proficient in Tamil, Sinhala, French and Malayalam.