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Ravini Caldera
Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader
Programme leaderBritish Foundation Programme
- 5+ yearsTeaching
- 6 yearsIn industry
- 3+ yearsAt UCL
- 3Publications
Ravini Caldera is an educator and researcher in development and financial economics. As Programme Leader she oversees the academic and operational side of the UCL Foundation Programme, and she is Senior Lecturer in Economics and Business Management.
She is a PhD candidate in Economics at the University of Colombo, where her doctoral research builds on her master's work on brain drain in Sri Lanka. Her recent publications with Senior Professor K. Amirthalingam include a systematic literature review in the Colombo Economic Journal and a book chapter published in 2025. Before joining academia she was a Research Executive at Kantar Insights and taught A-Level Economics at Elizabeth Moir School.
Industry and earlier roles
Research Executive at Kantar Insights, carrying out socio-economic research for multinational FMCG clients. A-Level Economics teacher at Elizabeth Moir School.
Programmes Ravini teaches on
Modules
- Economics of Trade, Aid and Development
- Financial Economics
- Doing Business in Emerging Markets
- Contemporary Issues in Ethics and Sustainability
- Global Political Economy
- Introduction to Macroeconomics
- Introductory Economics
- Principles of Economics
Research interests
- Migration economics and brain drain
- Development economics
- International trade
- Brain circulation
- Diaspora networks
Selected publications 3
- 2025
Caldera, R. and Amirthalingam, K. (2025). The Role of Return Migrants and Diaspora Networks in Sri Lanka's Economic Development amidst Skilled Labor Migration. Book chapter in Exploring Transitions in Economics, Finance and Management.
- 2025
Caldera, R. and Amirthalingam, K. (2025). The Role of Brain Circulation in Knowledge Transfer and Economic Growth: A Systematic Literature Review with Lessons for Sri Lanka. Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, University of Colombo.
Caldera, R. and Amirthalingam, K. Brain Circulation and its Role in Knowledge Diffusion and Economic Growth, Lessons for Sri Lanka: A Systematic Literature Review. Colombo Economic Journal, Vol. 3, Issue 1, pp. 177-200.
- PhD in Economics (reading)University of Colombo
- Master's in EconomicsUniversity of Colombo (2021)
- BBA in Innovation and Economics, First ClassRitsumeikan Asia Pacific University (2018)
- MemberBeta Gamma Sigma Business Honors Society
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