Mallika Rajaratnam is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at University of Peradediya from 1990 onwards, she was also a Visiting Research Professor at Catholic University of America USA in1997/1998 and 2016 on her sabbatical leave and nominated SAARC chair in Philosophy by UGC in 2006. She was awarded Erasmus Experts Asia fellowship 2014 by European Union to the Department of Philosophy at Masaryk University in Europe and organized interdisciplinary seminars and symposium on civil society and philosophy of values and Eastern and Western Philosophical issues.