Career

Born in Sri Lanka, Prof. Lakshman’s journey began at the prestigious S. Thomas’ College, Mt. Lavinia, one of the country’s most influential schools, founded in 1851. Immersed in a vibrant, multi-cultural environment, he embraced an ethos of universal dignity, laying the foundation for his later work in interfaith dialogue and human rights. Excelling in the bioscience stream, he completed his GCE Advanced Level and pursued legal studies, being called to the Bar in October 1976. His academic curiosity led him to win a government scholarship to study Comparative Industrial Relations in Japan, marking the start of a global academic career.

While his Alma Mater, S Thomas’ College, celebrates its 100 years at Mt Lavinia a few years ago, here he takes the liberty to capture the essence of a rich Sinhala culture that existed alongside the English, Tamil, Latin and Greek language scholarship that permeated the lives of students, thanks to the indefatigable services rendered by teachers, such as, Kalasuri Arisen Ahubudu, (Writer, poet, Sinhala lyricist, author, scholar, playwright, teacher and orator), Sandedas Coperahewa, (Poet, author, journalist and teacher) of the Hela Havula, father of Prof. Sandagomi Coperahewa, to name a few, whose memories we still cherish.

Even though this era was well known for its richness in English, Latin and Greek, with much familiarity with William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and Milton, we also loved Sidath Sangara, Amawathura, Salalihini Sandeshaya and Guththilaya. We were regular readers of “Subasa” ( The Subasa paved the way for the resurgence of a literary tradition that proved the efficacy of the Sinhala language to express any idea lucidly, succinctly and proficiently) and trekked to Ahubudu’s residence at Mt Lavinia, for basic Pali lessons.

[CURRENT OPERATIONS] He provides leadership to a multi-disciplinary global institution consisting of doctors, professors and scientists, as the International Chairman of Medicina Alternativa BOI-Alma Ata 1962; the largest Complementary Medicine institution in the world. He is a Senior Full Professor at Azteca University, North America. Medicina is an accredited campus of Azteca University listed in the UNESCO International Handbook of Universities. Prof.Lakshman is also the Chairman of the Global Consortium of Science and Technology.

Other institutions under the Global Consortium of Science and Technology

Since 2012, he has also been heading the Legal and Operations Secretariat and Therapeutic Jurisprudence Centre of AUGP USA as its Senior International Governor Legal and its Vice-Chancellor. AUGP is a forty-year-old 501 (c) 3 IGO with branches in over 120 countries. AUGP has a very large network of Institutions and Universities including Bronx College New York USA (A National Historic Landmark), Unilogos and GUST USA. He also functions as the Global Legal Advisor to its funding partner Vaamaa Forex – US Financial Conglomerate The Pintus Group USA, the largest global trading platform. He supervises the funding and investment negotiations and provides expert advice on legal instruments and charters, for individual clients or governments. He is the Senior Vice President Legal of Global Consultancy LLC, Albany, USA

Senior Prof.Lakshman is an Academic Committee Member of EDU Brussels since 2011, an IGO formed by a treaty accredited to European Parliament. promoting Global Education, Friendship and sustainability. Since 2011, he has been serving as the only Sri Lankan Academic Board Member of EDU.int in Brussels which is headed by H.E. Irving Levance, accredited to the European Parliament dealing with tertiary education and accreditation worldwide. He has supervised many doctoral and master’s students in their research.

He is the Founder and President of Young Scientists University established in 2009, with a rich heritage in academia and a global reputation for research-led innovations both in USA and Greece, and Secretary General of the Chamber of Chartered Java Professionals Greece, established in 2010, whose Software Degrees, AI and Robotics research are recognized worldwide.

ALFUTTAIM, ADNOC, STANDARD CHARTERED BANK, INTELLECT CONSULTANCY, GOVT UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL AND ARMY COMMAND STAFF COLLEGE.

[CONSULTANCY] COMPENSATION, ORGANISATION DEVELOPMENT AND POLICIES FOR SEVENTEEN YEARS. Held several senior corporate positions in prestigious institutions including Alfuttaim: the largest trading group in UAE with over 45,000 employees, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC): with over 50,000 employees and SCB: the British bank with over 50,000 employees- Standard Chartered Bank SL. Carried out Organizational restructuring, Job Evaluation using HAY and MEIRC system of Factor models, Market surveys and Multivariate techniques with advanced statistics using SPSS to analyze data. Duties also included assessing the budgetary impact of compensation decisions and providing oversight of compliance with regulations and labour laws, policies and psychometric testing. Thereafter, for four years, he served as the Vice President of Operations of Panorama at the Biyagama Export Processing Zone handling banking, legal, operations and labour negotiations. During this time, founded the International Institute of Theology- IITS in UAE and taught Systematic Theology and Comparative Religions which continued later under MENSA and Hebron Univeristy.

[TRAINING] LEGAL AND MANAGEMENT CONSULTANCY FOR FIVE YEARS. He served as Chairman Caldin , and as VP of Intellect Consultancy offering legal and management consultancy including psychometric testing, job evaluation, and conducting numerous public programmes including “Master Memory”, and other training programmes. Training included Stress Management, Creativity, Problem Solving, Emotional Intelligence, Counselling, Mind Maps and others in many institutions including Commercial Bank, National Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, Nations Trust Bank, HSBC , Sri Lankan Air Lines- covered over 3000 staff, United Nations –ILO staff, Parliament Senior staff, MAS Holdings, Caltex, Dialog-GSM, Suntel, Body Line, Slimline, Coca Cola, New Zealand milk, James Finlay, John Keells, Hayleys, United Motors.

[ACADEMIC AND CONSULTANCY] PSYCHOLOGY; CONSCIOUSNESS AND INTEGRATIVE MEDICINES SINCE 1993 FOR OVER 30 YEARS. Prof. Lakshman served as Director Maharishi Institute of Advanced Technology, and as the Consultant Psychologist and Professor at MA clinic in Colombo South Government University Teaching Hospital treating well over three thousand clients with CBT and bioenergetics. This was an exceptionally vibrant period and the golden era of integrative therapeutic interventions at this hospital, which had the benefit of visiting Scientists from all over the world and the eagerness to adopt unusual modalities of treatment. These included bioenergetics, music therapy using raagas, such as, Madhyamavati, Malkauns and Dwijavanthi, which were applied to those suffering from low pressure, Parkinson’s disease and recovering from cancer. During this period he also conducted the Beli-Lena research investigating the healing practices of Homo Sapiens Balangodensis 30,000 BP. He conducted regular lectures and was a doctoral supervisor to many students both in Sri Lanka and overseas. Later he assumed the role as the International Chairman of Medicina Alternativa in 2015, and continues to lead the organisation today.

[ACADEMIC] PSYCHOLOGY; CBT; COUNSELLING FOR FIVE YEARS. He served as a Visiting Faculty Member until 2010 at the Army Command Staff College and also as an examiner of the MSc degree at General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University (KDU) teaching the following units: Nature of Psychology, Motivation and Emotion, Conflict and Stress, Abnormal Psychology, War related issues including trauma, PTSD and Torture. The Army Command and Staff College (ACSC) – now Defense Command Staff College was inaugurated on 16 March 1998 by former President Her Excellency Mrs Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumarathunga. After January 2007 all military doctrinal and strategic level planning and teachings were brought under one roof, as practised by many other Armed Forces of the world. This work continued thereafter under Brain Technology and Neuroscience Research Centre- BTNRC.