From 2018-2023 he was Senior Advisor to the Ritsumeikan Trust and from 2028 - 2021 was the founding President, Trustee and Professor of Shizenkan University, Tokyo.
On 17 December 2023, he was appointed as the Chancellor of the University of Moratuwa by President Ranil Wickremesinghe.
[1][2] Educated in Sri Lanka at the Royal College, Colombo, he graduated from the University of Ceylon in 1970.
After working as an architect for Valentine Gunasekerea's practice, he moved to Japan in 1971 as recipient of a Japan Ministry of Education postgraduate scholarship and gained a master's from the University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Engineering in 1976.
[3] Following his studies he worked for Mitsui Construction and for the AUR urban and regional planning practice in Tokyo before taking up a teaching position at the Universiti Sains Malaysia in Penang.