Gamini Premaratne (PhD.) holds a master’s degree in Policy Economics and a Ph.D. in Economics with a specialization in Econometrics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, along with a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and a postgraduate diploma in Statistics. He has served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the National University of Singapore and as a Statistician at the Department of Census and Statistics in Sri Lanka, and is currently a Senior Assistant Professor at the UBD School of Business and Economics. His research interests span behavioral finance, volatility and spillover models, applied economics, financial markets, and risk management. Dr. Gamini has published in both local and international refereed journals and contributed book chapters to works such as the Journal of Financial Econometrics, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, Energy Economics, Communications in Statistics, and the Handbook of Asian Finance. He has supervised several master’s and Ph.D. students, providing research guidance and mentorship, and is an experienced trainer in data analysis with expertise in teaching statistical methods, modeling, and software applications including EViews, GAUSS, RATS, and R programming. Additionally, he is an expert in sample survey methodology, covering questionnaire design, data processing, and data visualization.