Zackiya Ashraf

Reading for PhD (Colombo), MBA (UK), PGDM (SL), BCA (IN), DPsych (SL)

Zackiya brings in over 17 years of expertise with a multi-faceted career in academia, information technology, career coaching, content creation and business development.

She started off her career with LSEG Technology in 2003 in Software Product Development Testing and progressed to the UK to join Roche Pharmaceuticals.  She joined APIIT Sri Lanka in 2010 as a Research & Development Manager and became an Academic in 2012 attached to the School of Computing and subsequently joining the Business School. Her teaching expertise lies in Professional Development, Information Systems Strategy and Project Management.

She is currently reading for a MPhil/PhD at Colombo University. Her research area is EdTech and Graduate Employability. She possesses a MBA from the University of Hertfordshire, UK and a Bachelors in IT from Bangalore University.