Ms. K.M.M.M. Karunarathne

Department of International Business, Faculty of Management and Finance

Email: methma@dinb.cmb.ac.lk

Ms. Methma Karunarathne is a lecturer attached to the Department of International Business of Faculty of Management and Finance, University of Colombo. She completed her Bachelor of Business Administration (specializing in International Business) from Faculty of Management and Finance, University of Colombo by obtaining a 1^st Class Honors degree in 2014. Prior to joining the academic sector, she has obtained 3 years of corporate work experience in a leading Multi National Organization. Further, she completed Masters of Business Administration from Faculty of Management and Finance, University of Colombo in 2021. She is also a ACMA, CGMA member of Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) UK. Moreover, she is a Staff Education Development Association (UK) certified teacher in Higher Education with a Certificate for Teaching in Higher Education (CTHE) issued by the Human Resources Development Centre of University of Colombo.

Ms. Karunarathne currently serves as a member of the Internal Quality Assurance Cell of the Faculty of Management & Finance, member of the Faculty Building and Infrastructure Development Committee, Member of the Library Technical Evaluation Committee and a Member of the committee to develop the new proposed BBA degree programme. Further, she is a Personal tutor under the Personal Tutoring programme of the faculty. She has previously served as the Member of the Career Guidance Unit (2024), Departmental coordinator for the Industrial Training programme (2024), Overall Coordinator of the organizing committee of the FMF Career Fair (2024), Coordinator of Awareness programme on stress relief and need for counselling for FMF community (2024), Coordinator for FMF Graduate Employability Survey (2024), Editorial Board Member of the International Research Conference on Management and Finance (2023 and 2024), Member of the Organizing Committee of the ‘Back to Faculty’ event of the FMF Alumni (2023), Secretary of the 16th International Research Conference on Management and Finance (2021) and Member of the Faculty Strategic Planning Committee (2021).

Ms. Karunarathne’s teaching interests are in the areas of Global Marketing, Destination Marketing, Strategic Management, Business Communication, Research Methods and Seminar on Research. Her research interests are in the areas of Global Marketing, Destination Marketing, Sustainable Tourism, and Value co-creation in the service industry.