Scientists
- Mohan Munasinghe - Vice President of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Professor, United Nations University, Tokyo
- Ranjan Ramasamy - former Chairman of the National Science Foundation
- A M Mubarak - Director, Industrial Technology Institute and former Director, National Science Foundation
- Ray Jayawardhana - Astronomer, Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, Canada Research Chair in Observational Astrophysics and Steacie Fellow
- Suran Goonatilake, OBE - Chairman & Co-Founder of Bodymetrics and Searchspace and Professor at the University of the Arts London
- Kavan Ratnatunga - Astronomer and Associate Research Professor, Physics Department, Carnegie Mellon University
- Balendran Velauthapillai - Research Scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- Kelum Manamendra - Herpetologist
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