Sanjaya De Silva is a development economist and Associate Professor of Economics at Bard College in New York. His current research areas include urban development; race, ethnicity, and immigration; and the economic history of Sri Lanka. Professor De Silva has authored several publications including “Access to Markets and Farm Efficiency: A Study of Bicol Rice Farms Over Two Decades,” in Technology, Innovations, and Economic Development: Essays in Honour of Robert E. Evenson (Sage, 2015), “Long-term Benefits from Temporary Migration: Does the Gender of the Migrant Matter?” Levy Economics Institute Working Paper No. 756 (2013) and Housing inequality in the United States: Explaining the white-minority disparities in homeownership, Housing Studies (2012). He is currently working on a book project, “A City Forced on its People: A History of Urban Development and Spatial Stratification in Colombo, Sri Lanka” for which Verite provided research assistance. He has a bachelor’s degree from Macalester College and a PhD from Yale University.