Asanka Perera

Asanka has been in academia for more than thirty years and currently she is a lecturer at Monash Business School, Department of Business Law and Taxation, Monash University Australia. At Monash she teaches Business Law, Australian Company Law and Business and Company Law for undergraduates and postgraduates. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Philosophy from Monash University, Master of Philosophy from Monash University, Master of Comparative Laws from Delhi University and Bachelor of Laws from University of Colombo. Before joining Monash University, she was a senior lecturer at the Open University of Sri Lanka. She conducts research in the area of intellectual property. She has authored a number of scholarly journal articles and book chapters and presented papers in conferences on intellectual property issues such as plant variety protection, patents, farmers' rights, innovation and development and gene patenting.