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Velayuthan Sivagnanasothy currently serves as the Secretary to Ministry of National Policies, Economic Affairs, Resettlement, Rehabilitation and Northern Province Development and Youth Affairs and Secretary to the Presidential Task Force on Northern and Eastern Provinces Development. Prior to this he served as Secretary to many ministries  - Ministry of Resettlement, Rehabilitation, Northern Development and Hindu Religious Affairs , Ministry of Tourism Development and Christian Religious Affairs, Ministry of National Integration and Reconciliation,  Ministry of Prison Reforms, Rehabilitation, Resettlement and Hindu Religious Affairs, Ministry of Plantation Infrastructure Development and Ministry of Traditional Industries and Small Enterprise Development of the Government of Sri Lanka.   He also served as the Director General, Department of Foreign Aid and Budget Monitoring of the Ministry of Plan Implementation for the Government of Sri Lanka. He has more than 30 years of senior-level public sector experience in development planning, management, monitoring and evaluation at the national level. He gave leadership to country-owned, country-led evaluation in the Government and established Evaluation Information System. He undertook many on-going and ex-post evaluations. He served as a Co-Chair of the Evaluation of the Implementation of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness undertaken by the DAC evaluation Network of the OECD. He is a resource person on evaluation for Master’s Degree Programmes in Sri Lankan Universities. He is an Economics Honors Graduate of the University of Colombo and holds an MSc in Project Planning and Management of the University of Bradford, UK. He is also a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka and Fellow Member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants of U.K.