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Prof. Vaidya Rabinarayan Acharya has currently been serving as the Director General of the Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences (CCRAS) since March 2022. Prior to this, he worked as a Professor of Dravyaguna (Ayurveda Pharmacology) at ITRA, Jamnagar from September 2007 to February 2022.

After completing his BSc in Botany Hons. and Ayurveda Degree from Utkal University, Odisha, he pursued MD and PhD from Gujarat Ayurveda University. With over 27 years of teaching and research experience in drug research, Prof. Acharya has authored five books, 10 chapters, published more than 365 research articles, and holds one patent.

Dr. Susil Premajayantha is the Minister of Education and the Leader of the House of Parliament, Sri Lanka. In 1991, Dr. Premajayantha started his political career when he was appointed as the Deputy Chairman of the Urban Council of Sri Jayawardhanapura, Kotte. He was appointed in 1993 to serve as a member of the Western Province Provincial Council and as the local government's Minister of Agriculture. He was elected as the Chief Minister of the Western Province in 1995..

Prof. Nilanthi de Silva is the Cadre Chair, Senior Professor of the Department of Parasitology, and the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Kelaniya. She was Dean of the Faculty of Medicine from 2012 to 2018 and a member of the Internal Quality Assurance Unit of University of Kelaniya since 2005. Later, she served as the Director of the Quality Assurance Council of the University Grants Commission from 2018 to 2020. She was the Vice-President of the Sri Lanka Medical Council from 2016 to 2020.