Piyavi Wijewardene

In March 2019, he co-founded a social movement with the help of several mainstream academics and professionals to urge Sri Lankan media channels to strengthen their development orientation in prime-time news bulletins. Soon after many in the sector criticized him stating that he is countering media channels due to personal grudges. Despite criticisms, he played a leading role in developing a draft act for a national media policy aimed at emphasizing that the broadcasters will be required to make informative components about the economy, technology, arts, and culture in prime time news bulletins. Further, the draft of the media act has aimed towards, regulation of crime reports, training media on the scientific usage of airtime, tax concessions for media channels, insurance for reporting correspondents, minimum wage for workers, monitory board for survey reports and advertising regulatory indexes.

Piyavi attended the 13th World Congress 2016 as his doctoral research was selected by the AGBA, United States under the category of higher education. Piyavi Wijewardene delivered a special speech on the enhancement of environmental awareness at the International Forestry and Environment Symposium 2015. His joint research with co-author Dinesh Abeywickrama on Green Banking was awarded at the International Multidisciplinary Research Conference 2016.

Piyavi Wijewardene (Upul Piyavi Wijewardene) (born November 7, 1982) is a Sri Lankan researcher, lecturer, author and the Chief Executive Officer of the Odiliya Group. He is the former Director of Institute of Human Capital Development and one of the Examiners at Sri Lanka Institute of Development Administration. He is a member of the Academy for Global Business Advancement and the Chapter President, Sri Lanka at the International Management Research and Technology Consortium. He served as the Head of Academics at the Management and Science University. He was instead worked as an Executive Officer at the Capital Maharaja Organization.