Dr. (Eng.) Subramaniam Sivakumar is a retired senior academic and a civil and water resource consultant engineer
He holds a BSc (Eng.) - University of Peradeniya, MSc (Water Resource Development) - IIT Roorkee, India, PhD - University of Moratuwa and a Postdoctoral Fellow – University of Life Science NMBU, Aus, Norway and North East University of Norway, Boo, Norway.
He was a former Head, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Jaffna, a Director Planning, Ministry of Agriculture, and Project Director of World Bank funded Emergency Northern Recovery Project.
He has been a visiting academic in Malaysia, China, Norway, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Bangladesh and Ethiopia.
Dr. Sivakumar has more than 50 publications in indexed journals, and eight books to his name.